Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King of Burlesque (Twentieth-Cen-tury-Fox). When Warner Baxter, a promoter of strip acts who aspires to more artistic realms, buys himself a society wife (Mona Barrie), it is a foregone conclusion that he will not profit by the bargain. What is not a foregone conclusion about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman...
...Littlest Rebel (Twentieth Century-Fox). Cinema folk have lately been telling one another that Shirley Temple and Abraham Lincoln would make "an unbeatable combination." Definitely un beatable, the combination is well planted in this picture. When the Great Emancipator (Frank McGlynn Sr.) receives in his office Virgie Carey, "The Littlest Rebel of Them All," accompanied by her faithful black servitor, it is to plank the child on his desk, share an apple with her and hear from her the sad old story about the dashing Confederate scout (John Boles) who happens to be her widowed father...
...these are real works of art in a twentieth-century medium. "Gulliver Mickey", for example, has happily seized upon the delight of miniatures, of 100 doll-house bric-a-brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this...
...grand total of enrollment including summer and part time scholars is used, Harvard sinks to the twentieth place having only 9485 as compared with the 30,714 of New York University, the highest ranking in this category...
...swirling snowstorm, a number of cinema folk stepped off a train one day last week in Callander. Ont. to begin location work on a picture involving Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe and the five smallest daughters of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. From the Twentieth Century-Fox lot in Hollywood Producer Darryl Zanuck had sent 22 technicians and cameramen, Director Henry King, Actor Jean Hersholt, Actress Dorothy Peterson, Writers Sonya Levien and Charles Blake...