Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse's head-there's no time to do anything else. The Chinese should study Communism." In Hawaii, though he refused to be garlanded with lei, he said: "I sincerely hope you never permit Christianity to destroy or change the beauty of your dances. They have the charm of unspoiled nature...
...personal charm and persuasiveness by no means wholly explained Mr. Roosevelt's wooing & winning the country. It would be grossly unfair to discount the genuine desire of the average Congressman to be helpful in time of crisis. And where this desire was weak or the Congressman's honest convictions obstructive, President Roosevelt held behind his back the most puissant of political weapons- Patronage, the thousands & thousands of Federal jobs the distribution of which Congressmen may propose, the President dispose...
...plot, though hackneyed, receives a sincere portrayal from the principals. A nice modicum of reserve in every detail of acting prevents, happily, the full realization of the chance for gross emotionalism. Such a background, of course, forms a perfect foil behind any genuine female charm, and Miss Helen Hayes takes full advantage of her chance. She is an unconvincing Chinese, but a superb mistress of the situation. Lien Wah's delicately expressive hands, and quaint self obliteration weave an incapable feminine charm through all the mess of uninteresting Oriental gore...
...will not be very much surprised by Playwright Davis' solution of the Langdons' situation, but Actress Wood's full-blown charm, tinged with a happy trace of quiet amusement at the part she is playing, should please. Hugh O'Connell, the droll one who cracked Indian nuts throughout Once in a Lifetime, demonstrates first-rate ability in a part more serious for him than usual. Forsaking All Others (by Edward Roberts & Frank Cavett; Arch Selwyn, producer). It took four directors, a reformed magician and a heavy-lidded lady who is a Congressman's daughter...
...make her cinema début in this picture because she has pretty legs and can tap dance. Ruby Keeler's utter inability to act is far more appropriate to her rôle than any feigned incompetence could possibly be. It gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George Brent, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell and Warner Baxter (as a nerve-ridden musicomedy director)-fail to provide. Good shot: Ruby Keeler drawling her consent when the juvenile, in a state of pop-eyed enthusiasm, asks her to marry...