Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Althoug it is fairly certain that an audience of Harvard men will criticize the film for its overdone melodrama and its frequent lapses into childish sentimentality, it is none the less true that "Sans Famille" is an interesting story and that the film has a definite entertainment value. Being primarily a human interest story, it succeeds, in some places, in attaining a certain degree of pathos. Typical scenes are that in which Vitalis realizes that the end of his life is near, and that in which Lady Milligan discovers that Remi is none other than her long lost...
...Remember the Alamo! He kept us out of war! Keep cool with Coolidge! Every man a king! When I was a child, I spake as a child; but someday the American voter will grow up and say, Now that I have become a man I have put away childish things, Someday the American voter may achieve education enough to put more faith in sane words than in same jingoes...
Last week Sacha Guitry offered a volume of reminiscence and anecdote in which such childish experiences were interwoven with buoyant observations on the theatre, genius, great actors and great hams; on the perils and joys of playwrighting; on travel, success and the frightful ordeal of being hissed after a complete and overwhelming flop. Although it traces the main outlines of his career, the chief distinction of If Memory Serves is its abundance of good stories, some sentimental, some hilarious, but each swift, effective, written with a neat black-out ending...
...choked up at this childish plea, Nile Club members coughed, blew their noses, regretted that His Majesty's Government still felt constrained last week to continue denying Ethiopia even the assistance of permitting her to buy British arms...
...Glory (TIME, April 23, 1934). Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel (The Paul Street Boys) about the warfare of two children's gangs for possession of a vacant lot which municipal authorities eventually take away from both, the cinema is a brilliant allegory suggesting that war is childish, futile and unpardonable...