Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusually fine casting, even in the smallest parts, and a leisurely yet precise pace that never drags, which give the picture its charm. There is a sort of civilized restraint throughout, even in the sense of inevitability that drives the picture on. Mizzi doesn't need to rouge garishly and wiggle her hips to show that she's free and easy. The men in uniform don't feel called upon to swagger and shout orders and twist their mustaches in order to demonstrate their army spirit and discipline. There's no order of onions in the tears, and no emotional...
Wings of the Morning (New World). Made in England, first directorial job of a onetime Fox cutter, named Harold Schuster, Wings of the Morning appears by liberal analysis to be a technicolor romance about the Epsom Derby. It takes a very liberal analysis to boil down the impudent, abstracted charm of the picture into this or any other trade category. Wings of the Morning glows with the kind of imagery which used to absorb the late Donn Byrne, upon some of whose stories it is based. Its tinted surfaces are vivid with gypsies, Irish hunters, girls in boys' clothing...
...Italian provinces, where Austrian misrule was worst, even the paid hands would not clap the royal owners. At the Scala in Milan, the audience had to be commanded to attend, under penalty of fines: the aristocrats sent their servants to fill the seats. Sisi's charm and beauty made some impression on the scowling Italians; but it was not till she reached Hungary that she tasted triumph. There she was almost too successful: Hungary went so wild over her that Magyar-hating Austria began to mutter. While she was on this trip, her first child died. Vindictive Sophie said...
...narrator, there are at present only 5,000 otters in the U. S. and the number is rapidly diminishing, creating the fear that the animal may become extinct. I know nothing at all of the habits and characteristics of the animal but anyone observing the intelligence, grace and friendly charm of the otter as demonstrated in the "short" cannot fail to be impressed with its possibilities and desirability as a pet. May I therefore suggest that anyone interested in the preservation of wild animal life seriously consider the merits of the otter...
Cambridge itself holds a notable collection of things worth seeing. The most attractive building is the Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720. Various alterations and improvements and the destruction of the roof by fire in 1924, have done much to take away the original charm of a building in a modified Jacobean style (something like a simplified version of St. Catharine's), but something is left worth looking at. Otherwise the Harvard buildings are almost uniformly inconspicuous and undistinguished, with a few lapses into pomposity, mostly neo-neo-classic, and one real screamer which at first escapes my attention and which...