Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood's leading stars, Katharine Hepburn is possibly the least versatile. It is precisely this limitation which made her the ideal choice for the role of Alice. The woebegone grimaces, the expressions, half childish and half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind...
...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...
...Lamps of China (Warner). When Hollywood producers last year were forbidden to make pictures as salacious as they wanted, they issued yelps that censorship would make the cinema more childish than it had been. As usual, their alarm was groundless. Forced to expend their inventiveness upon subjects other than sex, U. S. cinema producers in the last year have for the first time taken a sophisticated interest in social problems. In Black Fury, Warner Brothers presented a provocative and, for the cinema, daring portrait of the miseries of coal miners. Oil for the Lamps of China is another picture containing...
...dramatic fashion in what dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity to the great plane...
This romantic figure was Antonio Guiteras, a little 28-year-old pharmacist with cross-eyes and freckles and his hair parted in the middle, with a childish, open smile and a vocabulary of violent radicalism. Tony's mother was U. S. born and he was born in Philadelphia where his father was a professor of Spanish at Girard College, but Tony was Cuba's most violently anti-U. S., anti-imperialist, a focus for the most personal and violent emotions in the highly personal politics of Cuba. When Cuba swung Left after the 1933 revolution, it swung toward...