Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byer's sense of the melodramatic nearly ran away with him and Miss Margaret Lang gave a surprisingly sour-faced and matter-of-fact portrayal of Death. Mr. James Tower, in the part of Lewis the Loving, needs a gentle reminder that love is neither complacent, simpering nor awkward...
Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
...Shatter'd Lamp is helped through some awkward soliloquies by intelligent performances, notably the hollow-eyed acting of Effie Shannon. She plays the Jewish wife of mild, aryan, pacifist Professor Opal (Guy Bates Post) who teaches in a Bavarian university. Their son Karl (Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau...
...destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire Vidal, famed troubadour who actually lived until Author Cronyn began to put him down on paper, was the cast-off son of a furrier in Toulouse. Awkward and ugly, but with the gift of song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went his amorous and lyric way, wooing his hostesses with varying success. Once, on his way to serenade a lady, and clad only in a wolfskin, a pack of clogs...
...most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan) has left him to sin with a young illustrator (Lester Vail). The illustrator has fished a drowning prostitute out of the East River, rushed off to ask Mrs. Mitchell what to do about her. Lawyer Mitchell has chosen this awkward first act moment to call upon the illustrator and settle the score with him. He finds the prostitute there alone, accidentally shoots her dead. When the illustrator is accused of murder, Mrs. Mitchell is impudent enough to ask her husband to defend him. Lawyer Mitchell is weighing the advantages of doing so when...