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Obviously such facial gymnastics give maximum carrying power to the Premier's expressions, permit what he is saying with his face to be seen by people too far away to hear him. Significant shots: 1) the Dictator's completely self-effacing wife standing gracious and well dressed beside Il Duce, who seems genuinely unaware of her existence, at the marriage of their daughter Edda to Count Ciano; 2) Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, paying no visible attention as Premier Mussolini reads to him parts of the Lateran Treaty, and having to be energetically roused and instructed by a young Catholic...
...from Spain is longer than it should have been. Its principal incentives to hilarity are its hero's facial expressions of bewilderment, despair and false assurance. Sample joke...
...Heaven that he might end with the rest. Words of the mass were fitted to folk-tunes and the forbidden modes of secular music were smuggled into the church service. On top of all this the singers are reported to have indulged in violent swaying of the body, in facial contortions, and in the practice of omitting animal cries when the spirit moved. Things went so for that Pope John 22nd issued an edict in 1322 forbidding all singing in parts and all extemporaneous ornamentation of the music. The written scores were made to conform to the rules...
...part of Handel's G Minor Concerto for Strings, also to conduct the orchestra. Sometimes his right hand, sometimes his left, flew from the keyboard long enough to let his will be emphatically known to violinists, 'cellists, viola and contrabass players. But he conducted for the most part by facial expressions slightly stern...
...mustache, as the captain, and Warren William, as an admirer, Lil Dagover is distressed by circumstances of plot and dialog like those which have hampered other recent debuts of imported stars. She tries hard but all her part gives her a chance to show is a strong facial resemblance to Lynn Fontanne and a willingness to do better next time...