Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This story has now been taken in hand by a grim young Princeton-Oxford man- the son of the Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey-as the subject for his first novel. It is written in the first person by the murderer. Of "dangerous" Ruth Snyder (Grace Haxall in the book) Author Matthews makes the most: sends her eyes through the salesman (Todd Lorimer) at their first meeting, undresses her slowly, describes almost nothing except her effect on the salesman, brings up her fiercely female triumph in nakedness before the furnace where they are burning the evidence of their guilt...
...justice has a splendor that is grim...
Adhering to its invariable custom Hollywood proceeded to mould and stamp Miss Twelvetrees as a definite type. She was groomed and plumed, and came out a paradox. Her contact with the grim and the real was to be a result of her figure; just as her inherent fineness and final sublimation was to be foretold by the glow of spirituality that her slightly sloe-eyes could assume...
Chicago presents a play under the auspices of the Republican Party which has for so many years past provided the country with entertainment. Today's performance is considered by some to be a boisterous farce, by others a grim tragedy presenting the human race gravitating toward oblivion. However, the majority opinion appears to be that it is a melodrama, lurid and sensational, but lacking the grandeur and universality of genuine tragedy...
...Taylor's third choice of subject. He had worked first on Heywood Broun's Candle Follows His Nose. Becoming involved in Broun's allegory, he dropped it for Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Deems Taylor music is essentially lyric and charming. Street Scene is sordid, grim. Composer Taylor shelved it for Peter Ibbetson the evening he met Constance Collier at a party given by Katherine Cornell. In his libretto he followed the structure of the Peter Ibbetson which Miss Collier adapted in 1917 as a play for herself and the Barrymore Brothers. The story which every...