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Hips, Hips, Hooray (RKO). "Frisby's Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...Imperial Palace at Tokyo the cypress bathtub was prepared. To disperse the evil spirits loud plangent sounds were made by a general and three viscounts twanging bowstrings. A screen was set up behind the tub and behind the screen knelt Dr. Ichimura and Dr. Mikami -savants equivalent in Japan to the President of Harvard and the President of Yale. Into the tub went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Crown Prince Blocked | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Lowell House spy tells us that when Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge takes his Saturday night bath, he is entertained in the tub by a fleet of celluloid ducks. This sounds two good two be twue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

...friend tells us that he lived in Gore Hall in his Freshman year four years ago, and that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

...that he paid $400 for his fine single suite, and that on returning to see his old diggings the next year he found that as a room in Winthrop House it now cost $440. Looking around carefully for improvements he found a new hot water tap on the tub, a new binge on the door, a stronger bulb in the chandelier--nothing more, nothing less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

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