Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weird, TIME? We? "Strange, wild, or unearthly" my Webster's defines the word. If this is your understanding also, you must have us mixed up with a couple of other fellows...
...convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives to work in the dangerous oyster beds and strides surely through perils both criminal and amorous. Based on Somerset Maughm's "Three in Eden", the movie is a good, unpretentious thriller and enjoyable in the same way as a wild western...
...Rose Bowl," is what the title suggests and not much more. Since Hollywood released their first football picture some years ago, they have changed little. There still romps the sleek, cocky star fullback, who breaks the small-town girl's heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying for the Rose...
...part of Mrs. Pinchwife. Best laugh in the show is the situation, often drawn for The New Yorker by Peter Arno, of a duped husband coming upon his wife in another's arms. In this case old Sir Jasper Fidget is the cuckold and his remark, greeted with wild laughter from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed tarts, icecream sodas, Clos-Vougeot, Marcel...
...then he has collected live animals for the New York Zoological Park, U. S. Nationa Zoological Park, been field collector for the British Museum, U. S. Biological Sur vey, National Museum, traveled in Italy Mexico and France, becoming "the second American to trap in Europe." An early photographer of wild animals, he has pursued them throughout the West especially in the deserts, gathering material for cowboy stories and visiting more than 20 Indian tribes...