Word: contrivedness
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Horror films, plots with newspaper or gangster settings have undoubtedly fulfilled the wishes of the movie going public, but they have also fitted in happily with the producers' campaign to cut costs. "Frankenstein", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Murders in the Rue Morgue," the latter opening at the R.K.O...
By fleeting implication, Mr. Barry would have you believe that Tom's marriage undermines his integrity. He takes to issuing cheap books, stops seeing the old crowd. Just as the World, the Flesh, the Devil and his pomps are about to submerge Tom forever, almost inexplicably he rebels. For this...
The Woman from Monte Carlo (Warner), contrived as a vehicle for the U. S. debut of German Lil Dagover, is a jerky little melodrama of continental intrigue and the War. A lady married to a captain in the French navy finds herself aboard her husband's ship and in a...
Unfortunately Premier Briand had no head for finance. The collapse of the franc drove him back to his favorite post of Foreign Minister. In came great Premier Raymond Poincaré to save the franc, and incidentally to blight the careers of several Briand satellites. Ousted Pierre Laval contrived to get himself...
In Boston, Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma opened his Symphony Hall program with a skilfully contrived theme and variations by his pupil, 10-year-old Susan ("Chiqui") Godoy.