Word: glumly
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Petulant and glum, last week, was the mood of famed Actor-Manager M. Sacha Guitry. Sacré bleu! Why were not more people clambering to see his Charles Lindbergh-his "heroic melodrama" in 30 scenes? What could be the matter? Had not finickiest critics praised the piece (TIME, Dec. 3.); and had not the first few audiences risen to shout "Vive Lindbergh! Vive La France...
Philip Barry wrote Paris Bound, a light cocktail of adultery and wit; like that fine play, Holiday begins frivolously. The situation: a girl, Julia Seton, introduces to her glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In the second act there is a party at which the engagement is announced; and Linda, the charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used...
Engineer Frederick Seely, aide-de-camp of Mr. Connolly, was also convicted of misdemeanor. His sentence was suspended. Mr. Connolly had hardly spent two days in welfare island prison when Lawyer Steuer obtained a certificate of reasonable doubt on the conviction. Mr. Connolly was released on $5,000 bail. Glum experts figured that unless the grafters could be forced to surrender some $10,000,000, the sewer conspiracy would cost every man, woman & child in Greater New York...
...glum and docile crowd coagulated before one of the National City Bank's branches in Manhattan an early morning last week. Behind the bank's bolted doors and copper-framed windows employes pulled themselves tense with the expectation of rushing business, and glowed with pride at the immediate success of their President Charles Edwin Mitchell's new banking idea. President Mitchell had announced that this bank (biggest in the U. S.) would loan $50 to $1,000 at 6% interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement...
...would be cause for bewilderment if a Manhattan theatre season could proceed to its conclusion without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...