Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago there was a similar Fascist demonstration. One year ago the female athletes were omitted in deference to His Holiness. Last week, with Il Duce present and smiling grim approval, the females gymnasted...
...wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German hired a gunman to shoot Siemel's brother in the back; he was a long time dying. Siemel is now with his friend, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff...
Thanks in good part to the mystical imagination and grim determination of Irene Lewisohn, there has evolved in the past few years a synthetic art-form whereby great masterworks are given stage presentations for which they were never intended. With her sister Alice (now married and living in Paris), Irene Lewisohn started her experiments in the Neighborhood Playhouse, a small theatre in Manhattan's slums. She interested Conductor...
...potential horror and tragedy that lurk in the sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
Wallace Beery, as "Slaughterhouse" Scorpio, the here of this grim piece, played his usual type of simple-minded, not too quick-willed person in his customary style. Lewis Stone gave a good performance as the lawyer who always got the boys out of jail "in the morning." Jean Haulowe, the feminine lead, was not on the screen too often. The whole cast displayed a tendency to give the usual Hollywood version of that elusive creature called the "hard-boiled egg." The grease-paint and the voice of the director were painfully present. It is rather to be suspected that...