Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gifted with supreme faith in himself, Leon Henderson whirls around Washington in clothes almost sensationally unkempt. He is a dark-haired, truculent 200-pounder with a temper which often sets his fists a-flying, seldom gets him into controversy with superiors who can shove him upward. As a boy out of Millville, N. J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there. Once, in a huff, he stripped off his basketball suit, marched naked from the gym. When he was an economics instructor at Carnegie Tech, he had the fortitude to take his class to hear...
...that magazine. The Post's romantic and period fiction by such experts as Joseph Herge-sheimer and Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
...Dark Victory (Warner Bros.-First National), if it were an automobile, would be a Rolls-Royce with a Brewster body and the very best trimmings. Though not up to Wuthering Heights (TIME, April 17), it is one of the best star vehicles Hollywood has produced this year. As a play, it was not a success when Tallulah Bankhead took it to Broadway four years ago. Refashioned by Screenwriter Casey Robinson to fit Bette Davis, Warners' most talented and ambitious star, it gives her a chance to do a good job and puts her well up in line...
Though this plot gives the film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...
...delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example of the effect of the wants color medium when used in its proper sphere which is especially appropriate when an effect of many colored variations of light and dark is desired...