Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures, Two Arabian Knights and The Racket. Then he decided to make a great air picture. He spent $2,000,000 on Hell's Angels. Two flyers died in action before the camera. The death scene of one remains in the picture-a big bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into...
...farce. It is actually a sermon on post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel...
...godliness of trouble-making women he finds already attacked from the pen of Mark Twain: "These women make me darned tired who try to take in God as a silent partner without his consent." There is nothing new here, save where the new psychology feeds the flame of masculine resentment...
Song of the Flame (First National). Technicolor, elaborate staging, good Gershwin tunes and 5,000 voices have been assembled in this reproduction of a Broadway operetta. Bernice Claire is supposed to be a sort of Russian Joan of Arc; you are led to believe that the theme song she sings brings about the Revolution. It is extravagantly unreal, entirely out of the tradition of naturalistic cinema. Audiences who like operetta and audiences in the country who have never had much chance to decide whether they like it or not may find Song of the Flame to their taste. Others...
...written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...