Word: blending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a deep-diving narrative is no job for the ordinary novelist, but Thomas Mann, artist, mystic and philosopher, is no ordinary writer. Readers will find in Young Joseph the same magical blend of imaginative artistry and philosophic intuition that made Joseph And His Brothers a blue-moon book...
...Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting...
...because for some puzzling reason it seems easier to make the human part of Hollywood's performers behave in more convincing fashion than the allegedly lower species. The stars of "Sequoia" are a deer and a puma; Miss Jean Parker is also much in evidence, but she seems to blend gracefully into the background and doesn't interfere seriously with the goings on. She should have been a W. H. Hudson girl-of-the-wilds with hair in the breeze and so forth, but she hasn't quite thrown off her ingenue manners. The deer and the puma are united...
...derived, it is all the more amusing because of the omission. An example of Hollywood's newly discovered ability to scour without scratching, it emerges as a slight comedy which is no less wise for being less cynical and one which is performed with exactly the right blend of nervousness and imperturbability by all the members of its cast. Good shot: Herr Konrad giving his order for supper to Luisa's waiter, who thinks she has no business in a private dining room...
...consumption of the leading four was up 8.4% from last year, but nearly 7,000,000,000 below the 1930 peak. Chief reason for this drop, according to Standard Statistics, was competition from 10? cigarets (Paul Jones, Wings, etc.), mentholated brands (Spud, Kool, etc.), and the Phillip Morris English Blend...