Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billed as the first feature-length musical comedy in the "New Technicolor," "Dancing Pirate" marks a signal advance attributable to the efforts of Robert Edmond Jones, but shows that there is still ground to be covered before the silver screen acknowledges the rainbow with satisfying grace. We liked the story; we have for years. A young dancing master (Charles Collins) is shanghaied to California, where he is soon waltzing his way to freedom and young love's triumph with Steffi Duna, the local senorita No. 1. In spite of the riot of color and considerable good dancing, the absence...
...peering at the lights of Germany, adjourned to the bar. Stewards wandered about with telegrams. A man played incessantly on the aluminum piano. Lady Wilkins had the honor of taking the first bath in the icy shower. By midnight most passengers were abed. A few diehards like Lady Grace Drummond Hay sat up all night...
Though adding little grace to the fencers' postures, this device so successfully silenced the usual squawking over points that the U. S. Olympic fencing committee decided to take it to Berlin this summer. With it will go a team of 18 men and three women hopeful of capturing the U. S.'s first Olympic fencing championship...
...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...
...when he meets with criticism is moved by the desire to crush his critics by means foul or fair." To this the loudly pro-Roosevelt New York Post responded : "No President in American history has 'taken' more and taken it with better grace than Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . But let one breath of criticism be directed at these three pompous commentators, and they rush to hide behind the petticoats of 'freedom of the press...