Word: vulgarisms
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Eugenie Leontovich in the part of a pseudo-Baroness is both vivacious and amusing. Moreover, when her real identity as a maid is discovered, she enters into the spirit of the rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy...
...constitute, except by a poetic extension of the term, our 'national culture.' Our national culture, like that of every other country, is composed of the best artistic writing we produce, the best sculpture, music, etc. The rest is not 'debased art' at all: it is vulgar entertainment for the great majority who have a natural (and therefore perfectly sensible) desire to be entertained vulgarly...
Authors Ernst & Lorentz list shots and captions liable to be cut: portrayal of crime or suicide; display of dangerous weapons; cruelty, mean or mischievous; capital punishment; gambling; profanity, lip or title; drinking; narcotics; sex, suggestiveness or overpassionate love making; nudity and indecent exposure; vulgar dancing; improper reference to women...
...sane humanity? How much of it was cheapened and perverted by the greed of men, the mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?never thought about it. You imply that my work helped to fill that vulgar adolescent heaven of yours. I deny it. At any rate, it's your heaven, not mine. I want none...
...shapes the same sort of entertainment to form musicomedies. The chief attraction of Flying High is a onetime vaudeville comedian named Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil for a fat girl who wants to marry him. The fat girl, who looks as though she could barely waddle, does what fat girls...