Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loosely adapted from Watters & Hopkins' play, Burlesque, which ran on Broadway in 1927, Swing High, Swing Low somehow fails to give the spectacle of a wind instrument expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard...
...climate Nevada cannot boast-hot & dry in summer; so snowy cold in winter that even the Governor gets out and shovels (see cut). And to its quick divorces it may soon have stiff competition: last week the Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively...
...untoward fact that Edith, Jane's girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...
...innovation in Intercollegiate fencing, the Crimson fencers will take part in a pentagonal meet with Yale, Princeton, Army and Navy tonight. There are 270 matches on the card at New Haven, with nine men representing each college. It will be the first stiff competition of the season for Coach Rene Peroy and his Crimson gladiators, for they have trimmed weak Brown and Springfield teams without much difficulty...
...center court of the Indoor Athletic Building's top floor yesterday afternoon a perfectly routine practice session was in progress; the Varsity basketball team was opposing the Yardling five in a stiff, hard fought game, and as the ball travelled up and down the floor the first year men scored regularly against Bill Gray's outfit. But in the long run the more experienced team was rolling up a bigger and bigger margin as plays would click, passes connect beautifully. It was just one part in the final drive of the best basketball team Harvard has over...