Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wake Up and Live (Twentieth Century-Fox) preserves for posterity, at one & the same time, the amiable radio feud between Columnist Walter Winchell and Bandleader Ben Bernie, and the uplift message of the best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...
...made another stop in its countrywide tour to open a return engagement of two weeks at the Boston Opera House last night. A brilliant mixture of singing, dancing, lovemaking and fireworks makes the whole melange a Roman Holiday in the nineteenth century manner, staged with all the gaudiness of twentieth century America...
Fifty Roads to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an unambitious but consistently pleasant little farce, designed to exhibit as fetchingly as possible the qualifications of Producer Darryl Zanuck's latest discovery, Indian-blooded Don Ameche, whose fan mail at Twentieth Century-Fox has lately been second only to Shirley Temple's. Ameche is Peter Nostrand, a good-humored playboy who, while trying to escape from a bench warrant in a divorce suit, encounters Millicent Kendall (Ann Sothern') trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into...
Seventh Heaven (Twentieth Century-Fox). When Chico (James Stewart), Paris sewer rat whose ambition was to be a street-washer, rescued Diane (Simone Simon) from her sister, who was beating her with a strap, he wondered why he did it. His emotions became even more puzzling when, after he had agreed to give Diane temporary shelter in his garret, he found that he did not want to let her go. Not until he saw Diane in a wedding dress he had bought her, did it finally dawn on him that he was in love. That...
...Midnight on the Desert" stands out as a document of our age. It might well prove a reference book to future theorists who attempt to understand the inner workings of the Twentieth Century mind. Priestley's smoothly flowing style and his calm and unhurried manner make this book more of a friendly chat that a formal discourse on life and contemporary topics. As we turn the last pages, we feel that we have come to know J. B. Priestley better than Dr. Johnson, perhaps better even, than our own friends. This book is more than an "Excursion into Autobiography...