Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the cast as well as the atmosphere of the picture conters around him. It is fortunate, for the players are unable to come up to this standard. Norma Shearer lends sentiment and charm to the portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett, which adapts itself rather well to the mid-Victorian era, but as usual her emotions are more shimmering than deep...
...Republican pundit-journalist, thanks for correctly identifying Edward of Wales' s good friend. Baltimore-born, Mrs. Simpson was named for her father, Wallis Warfield whose brother Solomon Davies was long president of Seaboard Air Line. Her mother, the late Alice Montague Warfield was famed for her beauty and charm. In 1916 Daughter Wallis married Lieut, (now Commander) E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U.S.N., divorced him nine years later. She went abroad with her mother, renewed friendship with Ernest A. Simpson, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard in 1919. They were married in 1926 in London, where Mrs. Simpson has resided...
Boyer enthusiasts have failed to analyze her charm. The voice is cool, remote, essentially Gallic. But a bewitching personal note persists whether she sings of love or hate, boredom or jealousy. Each song has a finely chiseled pattern, an unmistakable mood built from a variety of inflections. Like Helen Morgan she likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early...
Professor Kohler has frequently been in America and his skill and charm as a lecture in English as in German are well known. In choosing the relation of psychology to other sciences as the topic of the William James Lectures he will be presenting to Harvard audiences his views about Gestalt psychology as opposed to the older conventional psychology...
...landing in the Canary Islands during a visitation of the Yellow Fever, allays the plague and at the same time makes right his own Weltanschuung. The part of the girl whose life is saved, and who in turn aids in the doctor's salvation, is played with great charm by Madge Evans. The fact that she already has a husband--and an indignant English husband at that--complicated things somewhat. But at length the tangled thread is unraveled in true stoic manner. "Grand Canary" is an interesting picture, and the shots of the Canary Isles are superb...