Word: ze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sepia-toned film and handsome exteriors with which Metro has dressed this old Porter Emerson Browne western do not even partly submerge the musty dramatics of the script. Spitting such lines as "Find horses for ze women, and zese two men we take for ransom. Kill ze ozzers," Actor Beery plays his part as if he were kidding the quickie horse opera. His ability and experience partly inoculate Actor Barrymore against his ridiculous role, enable him to scatter a few flickers of reality. The others (Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers) seem to walk through their parts in a mechanical...
...have put Lily Pons and the English language on a footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances...
...selection was made from a large group of athletes and students, and Miss Lorain explained her choice by saying, "I like may men beeg, but only if they don't make me feel small; I like he-men and not ze preety-boys...