Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang's big banker brother-in-law T. V. Soong was standing pat in the International Settlement, despite reports that he had fled. "I predict," he declared "that within three months-providing we can hold out, which I am sure we can-Japan will be on the verge of bankruptcy and facing revolution!" To achieve this aim, Chinese were burning down whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan...
...strangled. With their chests out, officers of the prefecture of police presently announced that they had solved the mystery of the disappearance of U. S. Dancer Jean De Koven, had arrested the most heinous mass murderer since France's famed Henri Desire Landru. Dancer De Koven's brother Henry, a U. S. theatrical director, commented bitterly...
...figure studies; Campigli, a respected abstractionist and fresco painter; Cagli, who uses with more talent than most the prevailing umbers, reds and sombre blues of the Italian school; Casorati, winner of this year's second prize at the Carnegie; the eminent metaphysical painter de Chirico and his funny brother Savinio...
...another only by signs, and permitted Director Alexandre no special staging, no retakes. A much better job of photography, the Trappist sequence of Monastery is more sombre than the St. Bernard, shows such Trappist activities as the monks washing one another's feet, burying a black-robed brother without a coffin. One shot is of a Trappist motto: The bliss of dying without regret is well worth the pain of living without contentment. Fade-out of the film is a monk's head superimposed upon a painting of Jesus Christ...
...play she is no longer real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing...