Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well as to Zasu Pitts, whose woeful eyes, Lady Macbeth hands and forlorn nervous meanings have made her celebrated as Hollywood's only sad comedienne...
...Budapest (Fox). The most important things in this picture are. of course, the animals-forlorn tigers prowling in their tiny cages, a blackfaced grey gibbon nibbling a bun with sophisticated gestures, a stampeding elephant who wrecks the lion house. But the people are exciting too. There is a sentimental young attendant (Gene Raymond) who amuses himself when lonely by holding long talks with the chimpanzees and who burns as many fur neckpieces as he can steal from visitors. There is a girl (Loretta Young) who, facing a five-year occupational school course in hide-curing, runs away one day when...
...shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed there-one-third of a length at Hammersmith Bridge, a good length at Duke's Meadows, a length and one-half at Barnes Bridge when Oxford made a last forlorn bid to close the open water, two lengths and one-half at the finish at Mortlake, in 20 min. 57 sec., slow time with a sluggish tide...
...Haverhill, Newburyport, and Amesbury have reached very considerable proportions. A total of ten thousand five hundred shoe workers have walked out of the factories in protest against low wages, poor shop conditions, and non-recognition of unions. The progress of the strike so far, however, has been a forlorn revelation of Labor's impotence in the depression...
...shows a clownish foreign correspondent misbehaving and manipulating news in Moscow. Buckley Joyce Thomas spends part of his time composing highly personalized dispatches for the Chicago Globe, more of it in making love to his employer's mistress, stealing press passes that belong to his confreres, badgering a forlorn cousin of the Romanovs who happens into his office. His amorous intrigues lose him his job; he gets it back by writing a lively account of an attempted assassination staged by having his secretary fire on a Soviet Commissar of police...