Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raymond Dennet 1G, Director of the American Red Cross in Cambridge, yesterday made an appeal to the students of the College for Individual contributions in addition to the usual Student Council donation...
...masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal is one of the few virtues the film lacks. A skillful, energetic and scrupulously authentic production, into which Actress Bergner's director-husband, Paul Czinner, put all his brains and $1,000,000 of his money, it is aimed at Shakespeare's public rather than the cinema...
With the votes of New Deal haters in his pocket at the outset, Nominee Landon planned and began his campaign last summer as a temperate appeal to middle-of-the-roaders who liked most New Deal promises, were dissatisfied with New Deal performance. For a time his restrained New Deal criticism contrasted strangely with the rampant New Deal damnation of his Vice-Presidential running mate, his National Chairman...
Combining in fresh and spontaneous form the kinetic appeal of Lives of a Bengal Lancer with the patriotic fervor of Cavalcade, The Charge of the Light Brigade will be important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz...
...whole, despite an excellent cast, "Ladies in Love" falls into the class of lower mediocrity with a definite and final thud. Simone Simon has lost all the appeal she had in "Girls Dormitory," and although we any pleased to see Janet Gaynor back again her return is wasted on a poor show...