Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming to these islands?--long after he had retired for the night. And they never...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has made more money in the last two years than any other important cinema company. This is doubtless due in part to Vice President & Producing Chief Irving Thalberg's "two star" system for feature pictures. Grand Hotel gave Producer Thalberg a chance to enlarge upon his system to an extent which other producers hoped would prove a reductio ad absurdum. The cast of Grand Hotel is the most celebrated, the most expensive in cinema history. It would surely have included other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars (Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Buster...
When Vicki Baum, who fortnight ago stated she would henceforth reside in the U. S. instead of Berlin, saw Grand Hotel, she had reason to be pleased with the adaptation of her play. Said she: "My admiration for Greta Garbo is unbounded. ... I see before me even now her tired, tragic face in the opening scenes and her extraordinary vivacity of expression and action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest...
...Wenching and 255 other able ping-pong players last week assembled in Manhattan for the second annual U. S. championship. The matches were played in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved...
...after the intermission Tin Pan Alley took over the show. The curtain went up, disclosed six grand pianos in a semicircle and a seventh in the centre. Two men were at each of the six pianos, ready to play 24 hands on. President Gene Buck of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers had become master of ceremonies...