Word: genteelism
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...great Macready had given way to the cheapest melodrama, and the dukes in the audience to cutthroats. The theater remained an eyesore until a social reformer named Emma Cons (London's first woman County Councilor) nailed it as one of her jobs. She turned it into a genteel music hall...
Died. Eunice Tietjens, 60, poetess, longtime associate editor of Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; of cancer; in Chicago. A member of Chicago's Hammond -piano -manufacturing family, genteel, bespectacled Miss Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, wrote vers libre in the school and era of the late Amy Lowell...
Londoners got a forcible reminder that D-day was near. After months of polite warnings and genteel posters asking "Is your journey really necessary?" the authorities abruptly canceled long-distance passenger trains all over the country. At some stations as many as 50 trains were taken off without notice...
...version began with a group of passengers aboard an ocean liner. Audiences enjoyed a creeping chill as they became aware that the fellow travelers were genteel ghosts outward bound for eternity. In the new version most of the passengers are slapped into the Beyond by a bomb at the beginning of the film, and cinemaudiences know from the start what they are in for. Result: a notable lapse in 1) suspense, 2) immediacy, since the presence of Merchant Mariner George Tobias hardly compensates for the lack of a single uniform aboard the strangely uncrowded phantom ferry...
...Faye Emerson), a country clergyman (Dennis King), a merchant mariner (George Tobias), an industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo...