Word: forlorned
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...universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real but funny. Mae Clarke as the girl gives the best performance of her short but competent career. Forlorn but hardboiled, she remains plausible even when she has hysterics; in the scene with the soldier's mother, she is curt and sullen instead of pathetic when she says: "I wanted you to know I could have married...
...exciting play of incident illuminated this story as it was told on the stage. The dark background of the house, squalid, heavy and forlorn, held it together and suggested that, in all other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house...
...Horse Island. Among the 26 missing from the sealer Viking which sank after an explosion off Horse Island, N. F. last fortnight (TIME, Mar. 23) were a daring young film-maker named Varick Frissell of Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook...
Finally H. R. 17054 automatically became the law of the land when the Senate with 14 votes to spare, overrode (76-to-17) the veto. Only one Democrat-King of Utah-joined the forlorn Republican opposition. President Hoover had suffered his most serious Congressional reversal...
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention...