Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange fact is that Hollywood producers have never seemed to understand why a hit was a hit. After the enormous reception accorded "Broadway Melody" producers shrewdly decided to reduce their allotments to song writers and corner the market in tap dancers and kick-in-the-pants comedians. The resultant decline in business almost sufficed to wreck America's greatest infant industry. Counter to this, however, "42nd Street" has at least one good song and a brilliant orchestra to play...
...ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that sort of embodies all three. A really good censor would have cut it out and left in a few more of Una Merkel's giggle wise-cracks. (Yes, I understand; if he were that good he wouldn't be a censor...
Senator Couzens, serving one day as temporary chairman, made Mr. Mitchell squirm when he asked him whether he considered himself a better salesman than a financier. "I understand you have quite a reputation as a salesman and a financier both." Mr. Mitchell did not think the question fair, but replied: "I have rarely seen an executive who has to do with the public and the management of a great corporation who might not be called a good salesman." Senator Couzens: "I would judge you a better salesman . . . and that is no disparagement of your financial ability." Snapped Mr. Mitchell: "Thank...
...your duty,' Low said. 'Influenza is the topic of the day, and we shall be expected to deal with it, and how can we deal with it unless you have it?' I couldn't understand why I should have to have it all by myself. Why shouldn't he have it too, 'l said? But he explained that one would be enough and the one must be me because how else could I get my facts correct? He could draw pictures from looking at me. He said he thought I should look very funny...
...Fine Arts Theater this week in "Men and Jobs," the latest release of the Amkino Corporation from U.S.S.R. studios. The film is a rather drawn-out disconnected affair which develops the following thesis: eager but uncomprehending peasant workers cannot equal the productive efficiency of America because they do not understand the intricate new machinery with which they work. If they can be educated to use the machinery properly, however their added enthusiasm will eventually make the Soviet output even greater than that of America. This doctrine is developed chiefly by means of an elaborate running graph towards the close...