Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the 12th Street entrance a brilliant Avenue of Flags sweeps the visitor down to a great U-shaped Hall of Science, heart of the Fair. Like other Fair buildings it is long, low, ultramodern, brilliantly painted-blocked and banded in orange, red. yellow, white. It is windowless, because sunlight is variable, electricity constant, and because windows are too expensive for buildings which will start coming down when the last sightseer leaves...
...they should both be proud of her. In the part that George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried it out of the dead Trigger's clenched fingers...
These topics are vitally connected with the welfare and happiness of the undergraduates. The CRIMSON believes Mr. Lowell stands at the beginning of a period of brilliant service to Harvard and to the ideals of integrity, scholarship and vigorous manhood which have been nobly combined in his predecessor...
...like everything else in which one of the Barrymore brothers appears it has grand moments. Typical shot: Barrymore telling his wife and children how cut up Gabriel Service was about discharging him. Reunion in Vienna (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids all the obvious pitfalls into which an adaptation of a brilliant stage comedy can easily fall. It remains wise and humorous, retains the air of spontaneity which translations so often lose. People who saw Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely romantic posturings...
...impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion and ingenuous extravaganza; but in maturity there remains ever that godlike leaven of simplicity which is the preface to credibility...