Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tangible evidence of the oft repeated press agents' blurb, "You'll laugh and you'll cry", is found in: Three Smart Girls, starring that remarkable youngster, Deanna Durbin. Whatever mistakes may have been made in the earlier portions of the film are compensated for in the cleverly built up climax, which "packs a strong emotional wallop...
Originally scheduled as a Class B picture, "Three Smart Girls" began to show potentialities about three quarters of the way through production, with the result that Universal expended a considerable sum retaking old scenes and shooting new ones. In their revamping process the producers overlooked a strong inconsistency in the character of the father of the girls. Appearing first in the stock comedy role of the middle aged man in love with a young charmer, he was an entirely ludicrous figure of the Keystone Cop variety. Later, when the film was expanded he developed into a definite individual, warm...
...story of children of divorced parents, their hardships, and their attempts to reconcile their elders is not a particularly new theme--and it can be deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...
...Manhattan's most oddly located churches is Calvary Baptist, a stronghold of pure Fundamentalism in West 57th Street within denouncing distance of bars, smart shops, noisy apartment hotels, racy night clubs. Sounding board of the late loud Dr. John Roach Straton, Calvary is seldom without a guest evangelist who fills its auditorium not with the demimonde from nearby streets but with mousy Manhattanites in no need of evangelization. Last week when the news papers were still carrying dispatches from Tennessee where a nine-year-old girl had become a bride (TIME, Feb. 8, 15), news hawks turned...
...predicted "inflation, chaos" on its demise. Since his resignation from the Institute in 1935, he has made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly affable and forceful, smart as a whip. In an editorial entitled "Big Business Looks Ahead," the Wall Street Journal sermonized on his election to Steel's board as "an example of the increasing consciousness on the part of business management of the importance of labor relations...