Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master of drawing and the woodcut that Burgkmair is most highly esteemed. Without the peculiar intensity, the "problematic nature" of Duerer, he still possesses fertility of imagination, charm, and a technical ability that give him indisputably a rank second to Duerer in this field, in which so many German artist's have been outstanding. The newly invented art of printing called for illustrators who would help to make of each book a genuine work of art; and it is here that Burgkmair is most distinguished. His wealth of imagination shows itself nowhere more convincingly than in the long and brilliantly...
...same academy. Friends have known her domiciled in log cabin and in luxurious mansion and have found that she graced any environment, that she has always been a tactful, loving wife to a most unusual husband, a devoted mother and a woman of remarkable intellect and social charm. If Fate should place her in the White House. Washington snobs would be forced to admire and respect Alice Murray's unpretentious manner-her calm confidence in" the purity and security of her own background that precludes any need for ostentation...
Lovers Courageous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), although it was written as a cinema, not as a stage play, by famed Playwright Frederick Lonsdale, has most of the qualities which are noticeable in adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family...
...Professor Emeritus left a higher regard and deeper affection among students than Bliss Perry. Fisherman, Editor, and Teacher, his kindly simplicity and charm are remembered long after English 41 fades into the dimly forgotten. Dr. Hauptmann, German dramatist and playwright, is equally qualified to speak in this field. As an historian, novelist, and philosopher of history, Goethe spanned past and present and still raises vital issues in the modern world. Societies of commemoration, lectures, and prizes could be, and have been, devoted to less worthy ends than that of keeping alive his work...
...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remain unkind...