Word: bel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose voice croaks hollowly from an off-stage microphone. As the Queen, pneumatic Judith Anderson makes good theatrical sense. As wan and woebegone Ophelia, Lillian Gish is Lillian Gish. Jo Mielziner's articulated Hamlet set caused the form-book perusers to recall a similarly successful one by Norman Bel Geddes for Raymond Massey...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
...Palaces for Adolphe Osso and La Petite Chocolatière for Marc Allegret, both comedy roles, got her first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned English by reading fairy stories, listening to the radio, memorizing 25 words a day. Shy, she refuses to eat in the elaborate Cafe...
...Norman Bel Geddes LL.D...
...week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished. She could be fluttery and childlike without seeming foolish. She could be wistful and shy and still suggest a certain brave dig nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that he could have for gotten her. Other Butterflies have sung the aria with greater flourish, built it up to a more flagrant climax. Susanne Fisher...