Word: gusto
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Michael Bartlett, whose even tenor was a mainstay of Princeton Triangle shows 13 years back, sings with as much grace and gusto as pretty Kitty Carlisle. Hampered in Hollywood by being only half-photogenic (one profile is much handsomer than the other), in Three Waltzes Singer Bartlett shows his full face. Costumes, by Connie De Pinna, are good all around...
...latest story tells of Kip Caley, bank robber and desperado, who, while serving time for one of his jobs, suddenly decides to go straight. A fellow of huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion...
Rudolf Forster, an Austrian, makes his accent sound just like Miss Abba's, and he is just as splendid in his mad Russian gusto, although he shows the restraint befitting a prince consort. Equal praise is due the rest of the cast, as well as Robert Sherwood, who did the translation from the French of Jacques Deval...
...Schwartz, Governor Miller and Wyoming's one Representative, Paul R. Greever, who had all been invited aboard, were on hand. So was Senator O'Mahoney, uninvited but a member of a Citizens' Welcoming Committee. The joke appeared to be on Franklin Roosevelt. Said the President with gusto: "Hello, Joe! Glad...
...seem Miss Dunn, a carnival singer, spends two weeks with Scott when her circus wagon burns and marries him. At the moment of this marriage, an oil well suddenly sponts with gusto on Scott tries to run a pipe line to the refinery nearby but encounters labor difficulties since the time given by the refinery for the construction of the line is too short to suit the workmen. When most of his men have walked out hard guys employed by a railroad trying to gain control of the well start to tear up that portion of the line already laid...