Word: spoiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage, spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain Jones put out to sea again, officially to return to Britain. All the other Joneses wagered he would make one more attempt to get through to Bilbao...
...Winchell-Bernie feud has hardly been improved by having been filmed in "Wake Up and Live". Walter and Ben exhibit much animosity for each other, but spoil the effect by billing and cooing in the climax...
...seen it done before, but the present cast and Boleslawki's direction make it sufficiently diverting. It is not up to some of its predecessors, but compared to "Dangerous Number" it is brilliant--or will be if seeing "Dangerous Number" first doesn't make you made and spoil it for you. "The Last of Mrs. Creyney" is perhaps a bit overlengthy, too, but it keeps you laughing most...
...Kraska assures us in his advance circular that Fraulein Bergner has acted the part of Rosalind in the legitimate theatre a tremendous number of times. If this is true it is just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with...
...Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade. Rates at Sun Valley Lodge start down from suites at $48 a day to two-cot cubicles...