Word: bridal
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...white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross, facing her babe who sleeps beneath another lucent Buttermilk Tree...
...married; how John Marshall Jr. arrived, and the ceremony was immediately planned on the outdoor stage of the theatre; how members of the cast had dashed about buying presents and flowers for the improvised altar, and certain girls had donned their best summer frocks to be bridesmaids; how the bridal couple hastily enlisted a Rev. Frank H. Wells of Mount Vernon, N. Y. to perform the service while someone played the wedding march on a portable organ and someone else loaned Mr. Marshall a ring and someone else again gave Miss Fortescue away. Amid squeals, hugs, kisses, handshakes, the couple...
...returns to him after her husband fails her on their bridal night. One day Eva rides off, undresses, attaches her clothes to her horse's saddle, goes in for a swim. While she is in the water her horse gallops off with her clothes. The lover appears to help her catch her runaway beast. Naked as Eve, Eva thanks the young man for her horse and clothes, is about to depart when she trips and suffers a slight accident which causes both to spend the night in a cabin. In the cabin scenes Czechoslovak Director de Machaty confines himself...
...King's Horses" is a musical comedy laid, not unnaturally, in the little state of Langenstein. The king of this restless country is a man who "on his very bridal night finds more alluring divertissement than his wife," in the words of his councillor; his wife quite wisely lives at the other end of the kingdom. When an American movie star arrives on the scene just as the king is having the fungus on his chin shorn by the court barber, the king discovers the star to be his double, and goes off to Paris, leaving the actor...
...Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which has a comfortable hotel and one of the coldest swimming pools on earth...