Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perform on the screen. The audience knows it must be trick photography and wistfully thinks how it would like to see a woman's head cut off by a real conjurer. Thus, the introduction of an atmosphere of mystery by the medium of a sorcerer's performance lacks effectiveness. Grim closeups, however, may be had in profusion and the speaker's lines are often more effective over a machine of pre-determined volume than when spoken on a stage. These, at least, are compensating factors...
...despite his frontal resistance and spirited efforts to turn the Japanese right flank, was forced slowly back upon Tsitsihar. Miles behind the Japanese lines during the week and safe from Chinese capture was the famed Nonni River Bridge, almost captured by General Ma in his first assaults. Under grim Japanese guard and directed by Japanese engineers, docile Chinese coolies completed repairs to the dynamited bridge, made possible the further advance of chuffing Japanese armored trains...
Married. John Held Jr. 42, cartoonist, author (Grim Youth, The Flesh is Weak), divorced last August by Mrs. Ada Johnson Held; and one Gladys Moore, 24, winner of a Galveston beauty contest in 1928 at which Artist Held was a judge; in Stamford, Conn...
...This grim but lively melodrama, even more than her earlier vehicles (Always Goodby, Wicked) shows the potentialities of Elissa Landi as an emotional actress. A stage success of 17 years ago, the picture has two other noteworthy performances?by Laurence Olivier, a mild spoken English actor with unusually good camera presence, and Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore, the best leerer in his family, achieves facial contortions of unparalleled eloquence; he has added a scratchy guffaw to his paraphernalia of lechery. Good shot: the scene in a cabaret in which a song sung by the performers reminds Barrymore where he first saw Elissa...
...career is finished, you may even find it possible to add a kind of warmth to your disapproving admiration of her. That is, after you have read her own story of her stormy life. To look at her as she appears now, with that hard, defiant old face, that grim and challenging eye, it is easy to see how hateful, what a nuisance society found her; you would never guess how many lovers she has had, how many friends...