Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal players was as like as not to pick up his chair and walk out. The various dance routines, also, were interesting conglomeration of as many different dance acts as there were dancers. Unpredictability, However, was not always a fault as the element of surprise added certain charm...
...bricks of Boston smile with a certain ruddy charm as the Vagabond strolls to church. He nods to acquaintances, and looks with a wistful hope for the sight of a lone green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul...
...difficult to communicate the charm of so fanciful a story as Zoo in Budapest -a charm which lies less in the narrative than in Rowland Lee's expert 'direction and in the fine camera work of Photographer Lee Cannes who last winter received the Cinema Academy's Award for his work in Shanghai Express. First of a series of eight pictures being made at Fox studios by an individual producing unit under Paramount's onetime Vice President Jesse Lasky, Zoo in Budapest should excite interest in forthcoming Lasky productions, of which The Warrior's Husband...
...itself. Col. Todd sent reproductions to the Pope, to Albert, King of the Belgians, and to Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Bishop of Liverpool, who recently led some fellow churchmen HI demanding more virile pictures of Christ (TIME, Feb. 27). Praised in the Federal Council Bulletin for its "strength, charm, grace, courage," The Nazarene will be placed in the Hall of Religion at Chicago's World's Fair next summer. This Sunday, 1900th anniversary of Christ's Resurrection, it will figure in an unusual Easter service...
...Such a romance could obviously entail comedy of one sort or another. It is presented instead in a sentimental mood which ill befits the confusion between Brent's romantic interest in the heroine and his thoroughly ungallant professional curiosity. What makes The Keyhole acceptable entertainment is the charm of Kay Francis' acting, good settings by Anton Grot and a few amusing sequences in which Allen Jenkins, as a brash and dipsomaniac assistant detective, pursues a mercenary blonde (Glenda Farrell) under the delusion that she is an heiress...