Word: delightfullness
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Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted...
But the excellence of the picture comes not from it's story. It is Mr. Leherer's delightful bundling techniques, the numerous rique remarks and situations Charles Ruggles' philosophical grumbling that sends the audience chuckling and wheezing. Mr Ruggles plays the comfort-loving father who cares little for church-going...
In the scramble for the covered orchids et al, it would occasion little surprise if the boy and girl who play Pip and Esiella when young get the largest balsam. One of equal size and fragrance should grace the village black smith Joe, who is delightful. Henry Hall is up...
Franz Lehar's music is practically indestructible, and despite the somewhat symphonic arrangements with undertone crescendos that Hollywood seems to fancy, it is still delightful. Yes, the Merry Widow is still merry, even if she was held over for a week at Loew's State.
Of a much different atmosphere is the co-feature, "Desirable," a, delightful even if at times unconvincing romance. Jean Muir, newly arrived to stardom, as the naive and ingenuously piquant daughter of a prominent actress too vain to admit having a child so old is charming in her simplicity, George...