Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star of Midnight" is a highly amusing and intriguing mystery drama developed much along the lines of Mr. Powell's former sensation "The Thin Man." Ginger Rogers is cast in an entirely new sort of role which she portrays adequately, that of the rich young society girl who falls in love with a clever attorney named Clay Dalzell (William Powell), turning amateur detective during their courtship and often unwittingly stumbling upon highly important clues to a baffling mystery...
...brilliant amateur detective who combines the qualities of fearlessness and absolute self-confidence with the ability to handle difficult situations in a manner both charming and graceful. Although it is debatable whether Miss Roger's characterization is on a par with that of Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," it is certainly true that she maintains throughout a certain vigor and sprightliness which lend color to the plot development. At no point does the interest flag, and the complexity of the situation holds the audience in a continual suspense which is climaxed by the dramatic ending of the picture...
Fortnight ago a thin, black-eyed Russian woman, owner of the Moscow Restaurant in Seattle's crowded White Russian colony, gazed out of the window to see why her dog barked. She saw a shadowy figure kindling a fire against the frame walls of the old Russian Orthodox Church where she worshipped each Sunday. Russian patrons raced out of the café, pounced upon Robert Bruce Driscoll...
...pacing his office at No. 23 Wall St., heard the decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...Neilson's programs had apparently achieved the astonishing feat of pleasing both mothers and children. Chief characters are a tribe of invisible creatures, "very, very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl in Philadelphia when she invented the original Orgets as companions. In those days Orgets lived in baubles on Christmas trees. Resurrected for Radio, they now flit about in airplanes too thin to be seen, slide under doors, squeeze into books. In each program they do a good deed. Sample...