Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into breakfast at the Dunster House we found a model boudoir set up in the lobby through which one usually walks to the dining hall and common rooms. Over the flagstone floor someone had carefully laid a rug, and all around the room were tastefully arranged morris chairs, a sofa, a table on which stood a lamp, and along one wall even a bed. In the center had been placed a card table on which appeared all the evidences of a well-spent evening, even to a tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses...
...George Auric's sombre score-a shade less unintelligible than they sound. Typical shots: A cow with a hide made of maps; blood flowing from the mouth of a small boy; a black man with small gauze wings; wire masks; stars, muzzles of guns, the Virgin Mary, a sofa-back through which emerges a man's head...
...Century). For his first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before the war with...
...Sunday Afternoon (Paramount). Old-fashioned people who, when they speak of ''the movies" still think of cowboys, sheiks and embraces on an Empire sofa, should see this picture adapted from James Hagan's stage comedy One Sunday Afternoon. It is a calm, observant little comedy which shows how a man who thinks that he married the wrong girl finds out finally that he married the right one. In it, Gary Cooper, Paramount's No. 1 sex specialist, gives a first-rate performance as a country dentist...
...roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books, pictures, rugs, clothes, a birthday cake weighing 170 lb., dogs, canaries, parrots, and a saddle horse (Chancellor Hitler does not ride). Most appealing was a box of pretzel mice from the children of Hameln, labeled...