Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quin Hanna (Lee Tracy) has driven himself into the mayorality of a small New England town. Brilliant, forceful, a man of action and success he has also driven himself up the social scale to marriage with Hope Blake (Julie Haydon). Hope is madly in love with Hanna but he cannot summon a similar depth of affection for her. He is too absorbed in his own success, too completely egocentric to be capable of love even towards a girl whom he admires and respects as much as he does Hope. Kate Hastings and Sam Biddle, old journalist associates of Hanna realize...
...resembling the cultivated apple in size and shape, others have fruits so tiny that one must look closely to see any resemblance to an apple. While the flowers in truth are mainly white or pink, they too may vary, for there are a number of varicties of such a brilliant rosy purple that the colour must be seen to be believed." It is fortunate that this whole issue has been cleared up once...
...teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...ARISTOTLE-Ignazio Silone-Mc-Bride ($2). Simple tales of Italian peasants, told with unobtrusive irony by the brilliant author of Fontamara...
...seats reserved. It covers the first crusade from the time Richard of England agrees to fight for the Holy Land up through the fall of Acre and the peace with Saladin. Although Mr. DeMille's fame can hardly be said to rest on his lightness of touch, his brilliant handling of great masses of people and an obvious striving for authenticity more than make...