Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charm...
...Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Dorothy Beauregard, an Indian of the Bad River Reservation, deserted her eleven children as a result of a love charm exercised over her by Indian Bobidosh Cederroot. John J. Teepee and 23 other Indians filed a petition with Judge G. N. Risjord asking clemency for Mrs. Beauregard, stating that she loved her husband & eleven children, that she was not responsible for deserting them, that the love charm was infallible, that it had been procured from a medicine man, that real Indian medicine men had "almost supernatural powers." Judge Risjord gave Mrs. Beauregard & Mr. Cederroot a year each...
...thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist in exploiting her physical charm instead of her ability...
...Mine Tonight (Gaumont) is distinguished from most musical pictures of its type by a naive charm and the resounding voice of Tenor Jan Kiepura. Its story is a composite of almost all Alpine operettas. An opera singer, Enrico Ferraro (Kiepura) escapes his domineering female manager, goes off holidaying in a Swiss village. There, just as his identity is about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger...
...summarize the impression gained from "Hi-de-ho" is a strange task. It is impossible to judge the show according to ordinary standards. As a series of disorganized acts it wins success through the irrepressibility and charm of a talented collection of individual performers...