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...match. Ergo. Mr. Leon Janney, favored by the adenoidal mother and the crustacean father of the big-hipped , must insult, get drunk, and make himself generally obnoxious before he can win their disfavor and the hand of the sought-for female. It all works out. The insufferable suitor Bernie, with his green and Yellow roadster and his blatant familiarities, is foiled in the end, and the baby-faced Tommy gains marriage and all it implies. Unhappy endings are only for tragedies, and this, we are told by the program, is a "scintillating comedy...
...tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy of words and cardboard characterizations. Plot: June Walker, in love with a young suitor (Michael Bartlett) whom Osgood Perkins' surveillance has kept from meeting her, pretends to love Perkins. She sends him to berate the suitor for his attentions, thus establishing communication with the suitor. The communication becomes more complete until the two young people are bedded, then married. To point the moral...
...disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with stock characters, a stale plot and mechanical lines, Come Easy made its mild zoo of feckless people easily believable. Director Miele kept bouncing her characters into spontaneity, accented their brash selfishness, their reluctant...
...Gosuke's honorable father ever thought of any connection between the two events, he certainly did not conceive that the result would be 1) Gosuke becoming a multimillionaire; 2) Gosuke becoming peer of Japan; 3) Gosuke at the age of 75 going, in a silk suit, as suitor to the gunboat country...
Cause of Senator Imai setting out as a silk suitor was Depression in the silk industry. In 1923 (after the Japanese earthquake) silk touched a high of $10.20 a pound. From then till 1930 it remained mostly in the $5-$7 range, but Depression put it on the skids. In the winter of 1931 when silk fell to $1.91 a pound Japan went off gold-but silk prices still went down. In June 1932 they touched $1.21. Last March silk was selling at $1.10. U. S. silk mills were operating at only about 55% of normal. Then came threat...