Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since its completion in 1937, the graceful, red-towered Golden Gate Bridge has borne a grisly charm for Californians bent on sure self-destruction. At first, they could also be sure of headlines as well as death. But by the time the score had reached 46 lives, San Francisco dailies gave them no more than routine paragraphs...
...their rescue, but it is chiefly concerned with Rickenbacker's life up to World War I. About his exploits in that war, and his career between World War I & II, it is very sketchy. But what it has chosen to tell is told with a good deal of charm...
...League's Assembly was almost certain to meet concurrently in London. A committee would be named to negotiate the League's demise. An active pallbearer would be Secretary General Sean Lester, whose Irish charm might do much to salvage bits of the League. Later another meeting would be held in Geneva to release members from the Covenant...
...such, Marinka has its points-such as: Composer Kalman's (Sari, Countess Maritza) tuneful if highly derivative music, and Albertina Rasch's conventionally pretty dances. In addition, both Howard Bay's sets and Mary Grant's costumes have a more than popular charm. But more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real...
...boxes, this hypersymmetrical rake's progress is as stylized in its performance as in its structure. It is more like a puppet show than a flesh & blood comedy, and its dialogue is in dialect as formal as the colloquy of Mandarins. The puppets often strike tableaux which have charm, irony and even beauty, of a kind. But it is a kind so rigid and remote from simple human warmth that honest laughs come few & far between. It is an unusual, skilful and singularly lifeless little picture...