Word: glamoured
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Side Show (Warner). The romance of the circus, the glamour of sawdust, calliopes, and spangles has long been celebrated in song & story but particularly in stories written for the cinema. This one follows the accepted outline. It gives glimpses of a circus train in motion; a plump bibulous circus-proprietor; a moth-eaten lion ; a fight in which the circus performers are attacked by the population of a small town and they defend themselves with brickbats and fists, shouting the traditional "Hey, Rube!" loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story...
...school at Exeter.) Exeter and Andover have flourished mightily, until today they are the twin giants of prep schools in size and in prestige. Other schools are certainly more fashionable, possibly more potent scholastically, improbably more prolific in first-string athletes. But no other schools have the glamour of Exeter and Andover, whose histories are as long as their rosters of students...
...plays he wrote, collaborated on or revised (among them: The Girl Of The Golden West, A Grand Army Man, Kiki) are sufficiently significant for immortality. The glamour and daring of his earlier productions has been imitated and surpassed by more youthful competitors, making some of his most recent productions seem merely the queasiness of an old man. But as a character of the U. S. theatre. David Belasco has a good chance of enduring. He saw to that...
...main action, and yet not commonly associated with it, are now taking place. With naval problems being relegated to the rear of the stage, Foreign Commissar Litvinoff of Russia has advanced towards the footlights, and for the past week has been affording foreign correspondents not a little glamour to color their often monotonous dispatches...
...dozen engaging novels and several good plays of the American scene, Booth Tarkington, now almost totally blind, and having at 61 begun to outlive his own vogue, has executed his play with the impeccably literate technique which has always distinguished him. He has costumed his hero in the glamour of the fallen great. Aaron Burr (McKay Morris) is poor, old, an exile in Paris, his political career over. By chance, in a mean Paris wineshop, he finds himself eavesdropping on a Royalist intrigue. With the expert, knowledge of character proper to so eminent a confidence-man, Burr turns the intrigue...