Word: colleens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recently the following appeared in the London Times' "agony column"; Will the bearded Scot who greeted the New Year by stamping on my foot on steps of St. Paul's cathedral while singing "Auld Lang Syne" kindly send 30 shillings to pay medical attendance and this advertisement? - COLLEEN IN GREEN...
Spencer Tracy Tom Garner Colleen Moore Sally Ralph Morgan Henry Helen Vincent...
...necessary, however, to be fair to the players--even in an atmosphere of narrataged antiquity. Mr. Spencer Tracy dous grey hair for the first time within this reviewer's memory; and carries off the part of a Railroad executive with a satisfying, lusty banging of fists. Miss Colleen Moore, handicapped by what is sometimes termed the "Come back stage," turns out an acceptable, occasionally an appealing version of the ambitions Mrs. Garner. Mr. Ralph Morgan is still Nicky Tear, however of a filling system. Helen Vincent is beautiful and blank...
...Whitcomb Riley boys in a swimming hole. Then, "in no time at all he was president of the road," bullying the directors of Chicago & South Western Railway into buying a little road for spite. Then a flashback to his first trackwalking days, his courtship of prim, big-eyed Sally (Colleen Moore). Then a flash forward to his troubles with his spoiled collegian son at whose angry look he says, "Don't look at me that way, boy. You're giving away too much weight" Then a flashback to his self-education when ambitious Sally walked track...
Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last...