Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Man, What Now (Universal). Hans Pinneberg (Douglass Montgomery) is a bookkeeper in the German town of Ducherow, worried about losing his job and the pregnancy of his sweetheart Lammchen (Margaret Sulla van). Marriage solves one problem and augments the other. Pinneberg's employer has been planning to marry his hireling to his daughter; when he learns his clerk has already taken a wife, he discharges Pinneberg. Lammchen and her husband go to Berlin to live with Pinneberg's hard-boiled mother whose friend Jachman helps the young man get a job selling clothes in a department store...
...Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that she is in the funny papers, and adapts her dynamic portrait of Harold's high-school sweetheart, Lillums, accordingly. The high-school girls are like those in this particular version of secondary school life, we shall seriously consider abandoning Harvard for another fling at life among the lower schools...
...John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint of being mean, treacherous, morose and excitable, Joe Martin makes money, usurps the position...
...weeks Dillinger's bullet-strewn trail wound and rewound through half a dozen states (see map). He arrived in St. Paul with a shoulder wound, got a city health officer to redress it. Few days later three Federal agents trapped him in a St. Paul apartment with his sweetheart, Evelyn Frechette. Whipping out a machine gun, he sprayed his way to freedom but not before he had been pinked just above the knee. At the point of a gun he forced another doctor to treat him and stayed three days in the home of a nurse before resuming...
Spring brings out the doxy in a woman. This word doxy is a perfectly respectable word for the Vagabond found it in a Supreme Court decision handed down by a most learned judge. In the naked puritanism of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary it means "an undesirable sweetheart," one of those beguiling paradoxes into which the tortured paths of puritanism may lead us. But for those beyond the academic halls it signified merely a woman who is "no better than she ought...