Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monkey Business (Paramount). This picture begins when a first mate on an ocean liner tells the captain that there are four hidden stowaways on board. "How do you know there are four?" asks the captain. "They are singing 'Sweet Adeline,' " says the mate. Routed from the barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which...
...middle West who had come to Cambridge with $2.75 and a high school diploma was always meeting the professor's lovely daughter on the cellar stairs. It was all perfectly Victorian and respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally to the parlor, where, beside a kerosene lamp and beneath the family portraits, interest blossomed into love. They invariably married. After...
...Harvey Dow Gibson came out of Maine, like Rudy Vallee, with an orchestra of college boys behind him. Unlike Rudy Vallee he did not become a nation-famed crooner, but last week he waved a baton for a band composed of all the great New York banking houses. And sweet was his music to the ears of depositors in seven small broken banks in and around the city. The tune said they would get an immediate payment of 50 per cent of their $42,000,000 total deposits, more later. Maestro Gibson's once precarious, now potent Manufacturers Trust...
...Atlee Burpee who founded the Burpee firm was a cousin of the California plant wizard. In Burbank's lifetime the Burpees bought seed from the little firm Burbank maintained to help finance his experiments. W. Atlee Burpee began his business in 1878. It gained prestige by introducing the sweet pea from England and more prestige by developing new varieties which were shipped back to England. The present Burpee, David, a man of medium height and thinning hair, became president of the company in 1915 after the death of his father. Born in Philadelphia in 1893, he attended Cornell's agricultural...
Free For All is a tuneful musicomedy presented by smart Producers Schwab & Mandel (Good News, America's Sweet-heart), with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Schwab, melodies by Richard A. Whiting. There is no chorus. As a result, the uninterrupted libretto may pall if you think about it too much, but there is good music, a little lively dancing and a dozen pleasant faces...