Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lately has been restive under isolationist leadership. Governor Ratner, who keeps his ear close to the ground, knows the rumble of a stampede when he hears it approaching. With his speech last week he put himself squarely on the side he thinks will win when isolationism gets its first test in Kansas next year. If all goes as he expects, he may be next in line for sere old Arthur Capper's Senate seat...
What they had been through was fake - a recorded A.R.P psychological test to see whether familiarity with the noises of air raids would make air raids themselves seem less terrifying to sensitive people. But even A.R.P. did not think that the raids these people would go through this year would be easier to take than last year...
...solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...
Although Whistling is Comic Skelton's first starring performance, it is by no means his best. His masterpiece is on ice at M.G.M. Made a year or so ago as a screen test, it turned out so slaphappily (mainly because of its doughnut-dunking sequence) that down-in-the-mouth producers, directors and such at the studio are forever running it off when they need some laughs...
...laugh was Skelton's first screen test in 1932. Some bemused underling thought he was a romantic lead, gave him a dramatic test. The result was painful for all concerned. Son of an oldtime circus clown, Skelton had spent half his 19 years trying to make people laugh in medicine shows, on Mississippi river boats, in burlesque, vaudeville, the circus, Walkathons. He had already been thwarted in his life's ambition-lion taming-which dissolved one day when he saw Clyde Beatty clawed in the ring. The screen test over, he returned to vaudeville...