Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece under consideration the odds are no more than even. It is a play with a decided number of good hearty laughs, is well staged, and is at least adequately cast. But none the less you come away feeling that at best it was awfully thin stuff...
...star with Gary Cooper. Said Chief Studio Executive B. P. Schulberg: "She has been under severe nervous strain . . must have a rest. . . ." Beau Ideal (Radio ) . Photographically brilliant, but hindered by dreadful dialog and a silly story, this sequel to Capt. Percival Christopher Wren's Beau Geste is weak stuff in spite of the care that has been wasted staging it. Lester Vail joins the Foreign Legion to find Ralph Forbes and bring him back to Loretta Young. He gets to him just in time, for Forbes is dying in a desert grain pit. Beau Ideal's swaggering Legionnaires...
...jolly. Of course I can smile, and that is one reason why I am taking this tour, although it is really a vacation. Incidentally, in Spain and Ireland the picture was particularly popular as they like my quiet, heart-to-heart way better than the more raucous stuff...
...getting stuff put on their faces and waiting for it to harden...
...Smith prepares his articles in his office at No. 200 Madison Ave. from press clippings and other data compiled by researchers. He dictates his "stuff" rapidly, cigar in mouth, as he paces the floor. Variety reported that Mr. Smith is guaranteed $500 per week against a 60-40 split of the gross income of the feature, with a present assurance of $1,050 per week on the basis of the present list of customers. But at both McNaught syndicate and Mr. Smith's office it was stated that no such information had ever been given...