Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find out just what made Walt Disney do the kind of work he does. Mr. Disney was not much help. "Hell, Doc," he said, knitting his eloquent brows, "I don't know. We just try to make a good picture. And then the professors come along and tell us what...
...painting by Whistler is a cartoon." The remark, if made, sounds pompous, out of character. The Rembrandt conception fits better-the conception of an artist, single of purpose, utterly unselfconscious, superlatively good at and satisfied in his work, a thoroughgoing professional, just gagging it up and letting the professors tell him what he's done...
Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) had to tell lies. She did not always gain by lying; she often lost, but she had to tell lies because her way of seeing things made them so fascinating, so endlessly fecund in rich if fanciful possibilities. Her husband, Kenneth (Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter...
Those whose petitions are granted are glad to tell about it in Novena Notes, Father Keane's breezy weekly, whose present distribution is 22,000. Typical letters...
...Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (by Dorothy Day Wendell; produced by George Busbar and John Tuerk). Broadway still half believes that there's a broken heart for every light on it, still cultivates the legend of the gallant trouper who smiles through tears. In Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, Doris Nolan, home from such Hollywood productions as The Man I Many and As Good As Married, squanders her talents on the part of a gallant actress, Margo Dare. The persons who get told are a bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent...