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Word: pointless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Queen High (Paramount). Although this was a successful Broadway musical show four years ago even such talented entertainers as Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan can hardly make a fair program picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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