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...still, he handles the part with surprising adeptness and conviction. Although shot with the conventional misunderstandings and confusion of names which are all straightened out in the third act, it supplies a good deal of laughs from curtain to curtain. The dialogue is clever in spots, but the facial and vocal expressions of the star really bring down the house...

Author: By H. W. Y., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/8/1940 | See Source »

...Vitamin B1 (thiamin): for beriberi, anorexia, certain heart disturbances, inadequate lactation, nerve diseases of alcoholism, facial neuralgia, cirrhosis of the liver, sciatica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grass for Health | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Today the Baboon Boy is about 50. He still has no clear idea of time, cannot write, retains some of his apish facial and bodily mannerisms. He has to be reminded to start any task. But once started, he works steadily until the job is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Baboon Boy | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Richard Whittemore is perhaps the best in a cast which is good, but not exceptionally so. As the blonde secretary, he (or should we say "she") displays a mastery of the moony facial gestures of a love-sick lass. His singing is also among the best. Joel Ferris, in the role of a phony Russian count, makes the best possible of a part which is none too easy to put across. His Cossack dance is one of the highlights of the show. The beauties of the bulging biceps, constituting the chorus, are uproariously funny. Dave Stiles deserves special comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

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