Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CAPTION PIANIST MARGARET SHOTWELL A BROKEN DOLL WHEN SHE HAS THE GUTS TO KEEP ON LIVING AND WORKING IN SPITE OF HER LOST FORTUNE STOP HOW CAN YOU CALL THE GIRL A DOLL WHO DEVOTES EIGHT HOURS A DAY TO THE PIANO WHEN SHE MIGHT WITH HER YOUTH AND CHARM BE MAKING...
...heroine, possesses the three requirements of a musical comedy star to a well balanced degree. She is attractive to look at, her voice is pleasant enough in tone, if lacking in volume, and her dancing is well above the average. She dances easily and lightly with an unusual charm and grace of movement. One feature, "The Ballet of Dreams" stands out above the rest, an exhibition of toe dancing exemplifying the charm and grace of movements peculiar to this dance other than exaggerated pirouettes...
Condemned (Goldwyn). There is hardly a scene in this that is not well photographed and Ronald Coleman and Ann Harding act as well as you would expect. Unfortunately, the charm that the director has taken such pains to put into Condemned is wasted because it is inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest...
...night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers, for Italians. That at last I should have discovered an American...
...either got to be a first-rate actor and know your business, or else have tremendous personal charm," said Noel Coward, the young English actor playwright composer, whose most recent production. "Bitter-Sweet" is playing a two weeks engagement at the Tremont Theatre in Boston...