Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Memory Lane. This sounds pretty dull and indeed is. It is a story of sacrifice. A small-town husband is contented to allow his wife to run away with a city chap simply because" he knows she will be happy. Eleanor Boardman is the girl.
Marty had a secret formula which disappeared. In the play she looks for it; finally it is found and rejected by a group of contented mortals, who burn it to ashy bits. The play is a mixture of mystery melodrama and philosophy, neither of which seems to fulfill itself fully...
Otto Klemperer, seven-foot German conductor here for an engagement as guest leader of the New York Symphony, walked on the stage of Mecca Auditorium, bent his big frame to bow to a fascinated audience, turned to the orchestra. He lifted his great arms and the entire orchestra fell under...
In failing to state which of his classmates he did recall, Mr. Depew left each of the three prey to the impression that Mr. Depew knew him for a living man no longer. And to each of the three it was quite apparent that Mr. Depew had lost his heart...
Finished with the ceremonies, the procession worked its way through St. Peter's; some women from the audience tried to push into the line, were restrained; all went home; the sampietrini, Vatican workmen, rubbed their palms, went home too. A year before Pius XI had opened the Holy Year by...