Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter Victor repressed a series of early jazz masterpieces, sold them as the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album. The late great Trumpet Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody through all twelve sides of the set. Two non-commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested...
...wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina Delmar from Josephine Lawrence's novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah Bondi, with that effortless perfection which, because it can come only from long experience, all younger actors lack. The result is one of the most persuasive documents about an old couple since the late Ring Lardner wrote Golden Honeymoon...
...equal of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in effortless daily discharge of endless public duties has for years been the Empire's popular "Smiling Duchess," that aboundingly healthy Scotswoman who is now Queen-Empress Elizabeth. Suddenly last week His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, announced that new King George had told him the scheduled Coronation Durbar at New Delhi cannot take place next winter for reasons having to do with Queen Elizabeth's "health." The official announcement voiced vague "hope" that in some other year the Durbar of George & Elizabeth...
Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...
...Slalom" must be a rare treat for the devotees of snow and ice, for besides being entirely in a sympathetic vein, it shows how the feats of splendid grace are performed by experts. For the rest of humanity this unique film is vicarious participation in the breathless and apparently effortless antics of winter athletes, without involving any of the chills and spills, but at the same time giving a most generous sample in comparison with the measly glimpses of the news reels...