Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention to plot and trimmings if they can hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in full voice. To this end, Rose Marie producers resurrected the highly successful operetta of 1924, added some new songs, framed it in magnificent scenery, let the two leads shift for themselves. Acting with considerable charm, and bursting frequently into song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald) is a pettish, kittenish opera singer whose scapegrace brother (James Stewart...
Does the Wellesley girl notice the details of her college boy friends' clothes? Or is she too absorbed in keeping her own aura of charm undisturbed by a shiny nose, a meandering lock, or even a temperamental shoulder strap to pay attention to such matters...
Collegiate (Paramount) is an up-to-date adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School, which Wallace Reid made as a silent picture in 1921. It is a revealing commentary on the progress of cinematic fashions that the principal figure in the current version is a personage as unlike Matinee Idol Reid as it would be possible to find: Pantaloon Joe Penner, whose alarming ability to simulate the appearance and behavior of a congenital idiot has rapidly made him one of Hollywood's most admired comedians...
...most bellicose Japanese is at peace in awe and wonder before marvels of Chinese Art. To the white delegates, most of whom did not escape inner qualms similar to an inferiority complex in Burlington House, sturdy little Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osamu Nagano explained exquisite niceties with elegance and charm...
...much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author Fallas writes of is more Utopian than Japanese, but even cynics will succumb temporarily to its charm...