Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a Widow (United Artists). This is a violent attempt to rouse laughter by an expenditure of physical energy. The attempt is a failure. One is surprised at first to see a film star so securely established as Gloria Swanson engaging in furious slapstick, but after the novelty has worn off the humor also disappears...
...Dornier DO-X plane; through all of it the widow pursues tentatively hilarious adventures with various men. If the star overacted less, if the little plot moved with speed instead of confusion, What a Widow might be passable entertainment. As it stands, it will do little to support Gloria Swanson's reputation as an entertainer. Best role-Gregory Gaye as a Russian violinist...
...consistently refused to conform to the commercial limitation of picture making. His films had to be cut to pieces to reduce them to program time. Producers became wary. His Wedding March, acclaimed by critics, was too expensive to yield profits. After he had spent many hundred thousand dollars directing Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly he was ousted, the picture never released. A brilliant director, an arrogant, independent personality, he has become an actor again by necessity...
...Denver, Gloria Utter, 5, and Rose May Etheridge, 6, argued over the possession of a rag doll. Gloria sulked off to her father's garage, returned with her father's gun, shot and slew Rose...
...State President Pessoa went on a vacation trip to Recife, Pernambuco. He received an anonymous warning that he would be killed some time after July 20. In Recife one Joao Dantas, Republican friend of rebellious José Pereira, walked up to Joao Pessoa as he sat in the Gloria Confectionery Shop, shot him dead, then was spirited away by the police...