Word: glamorizers
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...Railway glamor such as even the 20th Century Limited never knew has ridden for half a century, still rides the Orient Express. For every tycoon deposited in Chicago and for every cinemactress brought to Broadway by the New York Central's famed train, the Orient Express has carried its kings, its Kreugers, its peacock Balkan generals and as many spies as frontier guards can be bribed to pass between Europe proper and Asia improper on the musty, rattle-banging train de luxe. There are also German travelers, omnivorous, industrious and good at figuring out. as one did recently, that...
Most luxurious of all Wagons-Lits trains are now its all-steel, so-called ''Pullmans," sumptuous sitting-room cars with chairs and tables, first introduced on the Paris-London Golden Arrow. But to Europeans the train of glamor remains the Orient Express, weathered and creaky though many of its sleepers...
...Swanson, who has unwisely returned to the flickers, and John Boles are cast in the leading roles. Douglass Montgomery and June Lang are prominent in the supporting cast. The story is centered around two temperamental singers, an operetta production in Munich, and two Havarian ingenues who finally leave the glamor of the city and return to the simple pleasures of country life. The acting is burlesqued and lacks the humor and naturalness characteristic of the original...
Born into an age of momentous transition both in political and intellectual thinking a man of extraordinary literary ability emerged to give impetus to a movement which has been recorded in the annals of history with a glamor yet undulled by time--philosopher and litterateur of the French Revolution his influence has been felt in all parts of the world...
...Keith's management have any further reason for a sparse Sunday crowd, let it consider the following that Culbertson featurettes are poorly acted and rank advertising; that Wisner Vitaphone musicalities are neither musical nor comical; and that, as dwindling applause should indicate the Comfords are beginning to lose the glamor of New York and to take on the appearance of able hard working organists. Even Boston will refuse to support a picture like this...