Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp contrast is a "Spring Landscape" by Segonzac, notable for its rugged and vigorous handling. The cool grays and vivid greens of the picture are particularly attractive. To grasp fully the charm of this heavily painted canvas it is necessary to stand as far from the picture as possible...
Modigliani, the gifted young Italian who died at the beginning of a promising career is represented by the "Portrait of a Young Woman." This picture embodies much of the elusive charm of a Quattrocento portrait. It is interesting to compare this work, executed in sombre colors, with the rather harsh Modigliani "Woman and Child" in the Fogg Museum where the artist is working in a very different vein...
...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...
...Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...
Marquis Preferred. For a long time Adolphe Menjou's epigrams in pantomime have found expression in scenarios plotted by Ernest Vajda and directed by Frank Tuttle. Deft productions, each containing the same ingredients of wit and social charm, have followed each other like a string of sausages coming out of a hopper. This time a nobleman's servants, knowing that if they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou...