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Fair Rosamond (Henry's well-known paramour), whose famous hardships in a bower have inspired romantic writers for ages, gets only cold glances from the author. The story of the jealous queen's proffer of the dagger and poison bowl is discarded; for Rosamond, "flower of the world," died young in pious retirement. Still, Miss Kelly captures both the glitter and the solidity of the Middle Ages...
City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 1931 classic about a tramp, a blind flower girl and a fickle millionaire (TIME, April...
...Manhattan's flag-and flower-decked Grand Central Palace, British automakers opened their first U.S. show last week. On the first day, 15,000 car-curious New Yorkers crowded in and admired the sleek, rakish models, as different from each other as they are from the standardized design of U.S. cars...
...film presents Producer-Scripter-Composer-Director Chaplin in his classic role as a tramp with the instincts of a gentleman. He falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) who takes him for a handsome millionaire. To help her out of difficulties as he nurtures her illusion, Chaplin leans mostly on his acquaintance with a real' millionaire (the late Harry Myers), an eccentric who showers him with favors and affection while drunk and rejects him while sober...
...with a succession of his brothers-in-arms. Some of these cozy activities are described with a searing tenderness that may melt the dental braces of gaping adolescents-as when, in her lover's embrace, Shireen is suddenly "aware of a spreading ease, as though inside her a flower had burst open its petals...