Word: variants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chaplin sticks to his script (he usually gets plenty of ideas on the set), The Great Dictator will open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania (variant: Bacteria) against the "Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell...
Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...ideas. In Persistent Sea a solid doorway melts into a vast, minutely painted ocean. In Mental Geography a modern angel with bomb fins instead of wings perches on a twisted cable of Brooklyn Bridge, ruined by bombing. In these and other paintings Guglielmi has developed a specifically American variant of Surrealism-grotesqueries dependent on rational rather than irrational meaning...
...like a good prospect than she discovers that the young executive whom she encountered as a model is her suitor's best friend and determined not to allow him to be victimized by a female fortune hunter. From here, The Rage of Paris plunges rapidly through every impossible variant of a not-too-original situation. Best line: comment of the driver of a milk truck when Nicole, wearing an elaborate evening gown, begs a lift: "These hitchhikers get better dressed every...
There is, naturally enough, a comic-strip incompetent artist, the variant of the impoverished count, who serves as the specious attraction for the foolish young woman who misses the sublety of her husband's quiet charm. This one can't even elope with the wife on the husband's money, because he doesn't know how to open his new billfold. He is ably played by Guido Nadzo, and the foolish young thing by Lillian Emerson. But whenever Mr. Young is off the stage, the audience is manifestly waiting for him to come back...