Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Miss Colbert has 165 hours to herself, she has time enough to meet the romantic gentleman who falls in love with her at Coney Island. The one realistic touch, constant passage of fat, scrawny, pimply legs occurs at this juncture. This is probably the reason he doesn't fall in love quite properly. We see him next stepping on a steamer only to learn from the ship reporter that he is the son of a prominent English nobleman taking a little vacation...
...oxygen tanks were brought in, the stream of visitors continued. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson called. So did Mr. Justice Sutherland. President Roosevelt kept in touch by telephone. Chief Justice Hughes called, and Mr. Justice Brandeis. Finally when his life could be sustained only by constant oxygen, admittance was denied to every visitor but one. This week, as Mr. Justice Holmes's 94th year was drawing to an end, physicians announced that that Last Visitor was at his door...
...present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...
...pandered to depraved tastes and has been an enemy of everything that is noblest and best in our American tradition. . . . There is not a cesspool of vice and crime which Hearst has not raked and exploited for money-making purposes. No person with intellectual honesty or moral integrity will touch him with a ten-foot pole for any purpose or to gain...
Lionel Barrymore contributes the chief touch of originality by refusing to use a Southern accent. He is a patriarch who disowns his daughter for marrying a Yankee (John Lodge) and who later, won over by Shirley, turns up with a horse pistol just in time to save the Yankee's life and property. The only thing in the show which did not come out of the Ark is Negro Bill Robinson's dancing. He does his celebrated "Climb-the-Stairs" routine and contributes the finest butler's walk that ever reached the screen...