Word: attics
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...haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...tearjerker. Basically this is a fair estimate of the picture. But Smilin' Through possesses also all the qualities which make cinema a persuasive art and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the most persuasive of cinemanufacturers. Director Sidney Franklin* treated his story with the manner appropriate for an afternoon in the attic peeking at grandmother's love letters. Leslie Howard and Fredric March act with finish and aplomb. Norma Shearer's part, immensely different from the ones she has lately played in parlor tragedies, is the one Norma Talmadge originated for the cinema in 1922. Miss Shearer performs it ably...
...only $30,000 left of Congress's appropriation. Because of the U. S. elections they dared not ask for more. Acting Chief Delegate Hugh R. Wilson, Minister to Switzerland, moved the U. S. Delegation offices last week from the sumptuous Hotel des Bergues into a flat just under the attic at No. 33 Quai Woodrow Wilson...
...suite in the swank hotel George V in Paris, where his wife lay ill, Samuel Instill stared pop-eyed at a squib in The People, London weekly: "Stricken Dollar King, now living in a Paris attic on $5 a week. . . cooking his own meals . . . beginning life all over again, only at the wrong end." When comparative strangers began to telephone with offers of alms Mr. Insull, whose pensions from utility companies which he once ruled total $18,000 a year, decided to end his incognito. To newsmen he snorted: "The very idea! Cooking my own meals! Why, I could...
...eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into a close-packed nosegay...