Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tear one away from the exotic pastime of watching full-blown colonial maidens, done in the style of Louis XVI, cavorting in modernistic panels under the influence of subdued lighting effects. Paramount has again attempted to be all things to all men and has again succeeded in its own fashion...
...part of their fame to two great artists and in turn these two great artists find a small share of their immortality in two great actors. Sir Henry Irving in the last years of the nineteenth ventury played Becket before the gaping mouths of many Londoners in such a fashion that one critic was moved to say, "when you saw old Irving stand before his altar and say the words Becket never really said, you wouldn't give a thought for all the historians in the world." And even now Walter Hampden walks upon the stage with thin Castillian face...
...bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly well has Minna Phillips caught her tone. Nor must we forget Leo G. Carroll as Private Meek, and the others who declaimed G. B. S.'s dogma in superb fashion...
...Lyon) and an elderly fortune hunter (Albert Conti), who commits suicide when she declines his offer of marriage. Returned to the U. S., she finds that her subterfuges, though a shade more extreme than she had intended them to be, have answered their purpose. A bleak young man of fashion (David Manners) rebukes her at a dance and follows her eagerly into the street when she leaves, as she had hoped he would. Good shot: Constance Bennett falling fast asleep in a café and dreaming that her gigolo has become overenthusiastic about his duties...
...genius with a sense of the theatrical values of the contest, who would assure everyone a good time. He would hire cars with amplifiers to cruise the streets of Cambridge blaring the virtues of the candidates beneath the Georgian walls. The contestants, dressed in the height of fashion, blazing in House colors, hold banquets, giving away cigars, speeches, and spreading their ineffable personalities. Good spirits should not be forgotten, either. And then, after a week of Bacchanalian ballyhoo, the election is held viva voce...