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Body and Soul (Fox). This picture is noteworthy only because it was chosen as the vehicle for the U. S. cinema debut of Elissa Landi, whose talents are emphasized by the film's other shortcomings. Actress Landi has the flimsy role of a heroine who, having passed the night with an aviator on leave, has to express her certainty that she has given him a "moment of heaven." The aviator is Charles Farrell who portrays drunkenness by waggling his head from side to side. The lady, nicknamed Pom-Pom, has been the wife of one of his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trans-Lux | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

There are, however, not a few good features about the performance, chief of which is the fact that the two principals, Glenn Anders (Strange Interlude, Hotel Universe) and Elissa Landi (an English newcomer to the U. S. stage) appear to readers of the book to be ideally suited to the parts they play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Anciently Libyan tribes occupied the neighborhood of Carthage. They traded with Phoenicians from Tyre. About 850 B.C. Elissa, daughter of King

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics at Carthage | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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