Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high time that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences adopted a Baum's Law to punish, with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp...
...raking. A threatened expose promises the breakdown of the Yale morale for should the integrity of Yale's denizens of the law be questioned, we shudder to calculate the consequences. It is felt that student opinion, for this reason and for loyalty's sake, should stand unitedly behind the "grand old organization," and plans should be formulated to back the Campus Gendarmes with heart and soul...
...three months will the horse chestnut trees in the Champs Elysees raise their white candles in the sun, yet last week on the Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix, spring had already come. The closely guarded private openings of the grand couturiers were over. Buyers who had paid $100 per opening apiece to attend (refunded on the first order) streamed from Paris with orders for their employers and tips for newshawks on the new fashions. French actresses had been given their pick of free gowns for the spring season and the salons were opened for humble citizens who might...
...Ottokar Brandt (Siegfried Rumann of Grand Hotel), a great bear of a man whose crippled left arm once played a gifted violin, has taught his daughter all he knows of music. Now she must go to Vienna. During the midyear vacation a scholarship is vacated. It may be Elsa's chance. When she fails to get it she enlists the sympathy and warm admiration of Harry Conway. They fall in love, although they try to control it. "It's surprising," says Elsa, with a wry twist of the mouth, "the things we can control...
...showing his "Varsities of 1933." Sample line is the one about the brother down on the farm who seems to get more milk from the cowds than anyone else. Say, has that man get pull! Of course, the Metropolitan is becoming more than a theatre. Dancing in the Grand Lounge affords an agreeable interlude for those Jazz crazed youngsters unable to understand the classics of Sevitzky: who, by the way, is said to be Koussevitzky's nephew. Patrous taking in a matince can try their cigarette stained hands at ping pong. We have yet to investigate the rumors that there...