Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Feblowicz assembled his friends, summoned chemists, engineers, traffic policemen, asphalt manufacturers, chauffeurs, sued the municipality of Berlin for 80 marks ($19). Object of the case was to force the city to lay anti-skid paving in its streets. Since the suit was for less than 100 marks, no appeal is possible...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
...Animal Kingdom (RKO) is a story about a high-strung young publisher who deserts his deserving mistress to marry a designing wife; and who goes back to the mistress when he realizes that his wife has been using her physical appeal to make him betray his esthetic ideals in favor of mundane advantages which she considers more important. What gave Author Barry's idea its novelty when it was successfully produced as a play last year was the fact that the roles usually assigned to wife and mistress in such a triangle were reversed. Under the sharp beam...
Japanese are almost 100% literate. One in five reads a Noma magazine. Printed cheaply on thin paper, these magazines were the first to appeal to Japan's masses, contain a shrewd mixture of entertainment, information and morality. "The King's" slogan for them all is "highly entertaining and doing a lot of good...
Written with care, humor and flashes of satirical shrewdness. Never Ask the End may scare away skimming readers by its slow and mazy manner. To serious readers, its seriousness and sly competence should appeal...