Word: dulcetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besides looking like a true cowboy, Mr. Cagney shows a depth of character portrayal unusual for pictures of this type. Humphrey Bogart does a fine job as a leering and scheming villain. But Rosemary Lane has been badly miscast. Although she may present a luscious bit of femininity crooning dulcet lyrics in a Dick Powell musical, Miss Lane has not the force necessary to carry this heavy dramatic part. However, the film itself suffers from too much of this serious emotionalism. Its lack of an occasional touch of levity keeps it from being a truly superior production...
...Sothern, she of the dulcet crooning soprano, is the only person who is unfortunately cast. Her really delightful voice is not given ample opportunity. The girl who so successfully put over "Your Head on My Shoulder" in "Kid Millions" deserves a better break than the comic "Rhythm of the Rain." The sleek beauty of Merle Oberon produced a gasping reaction in the audience, and the rest of the cast were adequate...
...structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization will soon permit the Manchurians to return to the bosom of a really national Chinese state. In all of which, we are left to assume, disinterested Japan would happily concur, with dulcet twitterings from above. But the book is, in the main, a capable presentation of the enlightened Japanese view, vastly more convincing than Dr. Shei's pamphleteering attempts to establish China's case...
...City. It is not so pungent a narrative as that which described the Hallams of the Upper West Side (Another Language). In their Park Avenue purgatory, the Langdons of A Saturday Night were more urbane. The Rimplegars of Brooklyn (Three-Cornered Moon) still hold the all time record for dulcet insanity. But the Blakeleys, who inhabit a presentable but unspecified sector, amuse at times...
Miss Cowl called her play Smilin' Through, and there are those who still feel a sympathetic tear in their eye when they reflect on how dulcet was Miss Cowl in her dual role of both heroines, how pleasant was the treacly little theme song of that piece...