Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainment this frothy farce owes much to the talents of its cast, especially to those of Actor A. (for Alfred) E. (for Edward) Matthews, who talks through his teeth with a bland and preoccupied complacence unique on the Anglo-U. S. stage, who can read a line like "God, man, haven't you any tect?" as if it were a minute masterpiece of wit, and who is reported to be so dissatisfied with the work of Manhattan laundries that he sends his soiled linen home every week to England...
...housemaids in his Embassy only by special permission of the Realmleader, might lose that privilege and even be sent packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin with the fervent curses of the Bolsheviks in his ears would then be sent Ambassador Graf Friedrich von der Schulenburg, an exasperatingly bland German. No matter what insults Soviet newsorgans hurl at Hitler week after week, Schulenburg is never instructed to protest, turns up smiling at Bolshevik receptions, refuses to let Communists get his goat...
Pursuing a bland course through all this excitement, Detectives Harwood and Fenton eventually dig through the intrigues of a bogus reform group, pin the crimes on the least suspectable person in a final melee, which, for those cinemaddicts who want their mysteries solved with explicit completeness, is about the only unsatisfying thing in the picture...
...posite" the redoubtable Major Edward Bowes, still Radio's No. i attraction with his famed Amateur Night.- Under the sponsorship of Walter P. Chrysler (TlME, June 22), Major Bowes will move his show from Sunday to Thursday nights, from N. B. C. to C. B. S. There the bland master of ceremonies of the amateur hour will compete for listeners with a "Show-boat" captained by Yale's Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross...
Covered Wagon Co. has a history typical of the industry. Founder and president is bland, ruddy-chopped Arthur George Sherman, 46, son of a manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged...