Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lovers Courageous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), although it was written as a cinema, not as a stage play, by famed Playwright Frederick Lonsdale, has most of the qualities which are noticeable in adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family...
...commandeers its best German singers, puts on with great success a series of Wagner matinees. This year for the first time an act from each opera in the cycle is being broadcast. On the stage last week Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her farewell appearance of the season, sang the gracious Elizabeth who pleads for the erring Tannhauser. Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many another person came to congratulate her, Maria...
Grand Duke Alexander found the Spanish royal family in the Hotel Savoy on the edge of the forest at Fontainebleau. The faithful Duke of Miranda led him first to the salon of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie who was gracious and more than a little sorry for herself...
...Alexander, how could you! Fancy a man living in this year of grace and not following the career of Al Capone! Good gracious me, I should hope I do know everything about him. I get the clippings...
...Majesty's Squadron at Boston and other officers of the fleet." In 1824 the Harvard Chapter was host to Lafayette. The orator of that year, Edward Everett, closed with "an address to La Fayette exceeding anything we have heard, and drew tears from almost every eye"; and to the gracious toast of Judge Story, who presided afterward at the dinner: "Our most distinguished guest La Fayette--He reads his history in a nation's eyes", the famous guest replied with equal grace and spirit; "This Antient University: this Literary Society. This Holy Alliance of Learning & Virtue & Patriotism is more than...