Word: willing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The fun is complicated by Groucho's efforts to extract $10,000 from Mrs. Dukesbury (Margaret Dumont, stately stooge of the Marxes), a Newport dowager. Groucho, who has never seen Mrs. Dukes-bury before, barges into her boudoir, woos her with this Marxian dialectric: "Those June nights on the...
Beasts of Berlin (Producers Pictures Corp.). In the windy March of 1918 Manhattan's flag-wrapped Broadway Theatre flaunted an announcement: "WARNING: Any person throwing mud at this poster will not be prosecuted." The poster advertised a new thriller: The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin. Inside the theatre, girl ushers...
When Sandburg gave his first two volumes a rigorous rewriting in manuscript in 1935, he scaled down four opening chapters on the background of secession into one, making a packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time...
In the Senate of the United States Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas, an elegant credited with winging his man in eight duels, could face the Northern Senators to say, delicately: "The difficulty between you and us, gentlemen, is, that you will not send the right sort of people here. Why...
Structure. As Sandburg's narrative of war and politics goes on, it gathers such momentum that he can toss in a chapter the length of an ordinary novel, dealing entirely with White House routine, and lose little by it. The look and sound and layout of Washington, the character...