Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because there is magic in the voice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I was familiar with his addresses, through the printed word. They were interesting, well conceived and concisely written. But delivered in the firm, friendly voice of the President, they took on new vitality...
Moulin Rouge (20th Century) is a sketchy compendium of familiar musicom edy patterns. Like Dancing Lady it is a backstage romance. Its show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian...
...years ago because he was "becoming a background for my activities and looked upon as 'Ann Harding's husband,' " her producers have persistently set her to exploring marital problems of the day. Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this time is an arty and lovelorn lady named Sally Wyndham who after a tragic love affair gives up her baby, goes to Italy as an interior decorator's agent...
...moonshine, and its sub-varieties, the drinking of colored alcohol is being encouraged; not in the least. This moonshine, particularly as made in many of the Southern and Western States, is a genuine whiskey, with a character all its own. The type with which Castor and I are most familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste is, to be sure, that of liquid fire...
...have good actors nowadays, but I don't believe you will find an individual actor as great as some of those of the nineteenth century. You will find more good performances given in more good plays, but no single interpretations that reach the greatness so familiar to the leading actors and actresses of the past century. The trouble with the modern actor is that he has been inadvertently cast into a mold, from which it is practically impossible for him to escape. It can be summed up in one phrase 'once a cop, always a cop.' He does a part...