Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bride of the Regiment (First National). Somehow music and light, gracious playing gave that stilted musical comedy, The Lady in Ermine, a charm as a stage production which it has lost in cinema. Better direction might have made acceptable the earnest efforts of the large and mediocre cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical...
...general, textbooks formats are becoming more attractive yearly, and do not detract in the least from the charm of well-filled bookcases...
...course Mrs. Hughes' work is no pretentious study of English culture. It aims to be only a handy pocket size travel-guide book that attempts to pin between its pages a goodly share of the charm that makes England so dear to those who know it. To carry out her purpose the author gives the reader something of an understanding of the English and things English. In this sense it is, comparatively speaking, as broadening as an actual journey across the Atlantic, and it should be of no slight assistance to those planning such a voyage...
...part of her city only against her will; Bertram Garrison, the principal character, is the young composer whose creative spirit struggles for realization in the face of various softening influences. The other characters, except Elaine, blend into the background; she stands apart, a curiosly fascinating figure whose charm is as inexplicable as her detachment from the rest of the scene is apparent...
Poet Carl Sandburg's fairy tales are neither as popular nor as winsome as English Author Alan Alexander Milne's, but they have their own queer charm...