Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his recent fantastic but successful electioneering campaign, self-styled Technocrat Frenssen continued his latest method of making his living-peddling coffee from a tricycle. Last week he was still peddling coffee, displayed on his tricycle a sign reading: "Electors, I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
Most charming piece: Self-Portrait with Heart, Frida's record of a period of unhappiness with Diego, showing her with tears on her cheeks, a ferrule sticking through the hole in her body where her heart was, two tiny imps playing seesaw on the ferrule. Political bit: a full-length portrait of Frida holding a scroll inscribed: "To Leon Trotsky, with all love, I dedicate this painting, 7 November...
Adapted from I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose...
...Young in Heart (Selznick International). Doddering Ellen Fortune (Minnie Dupree) is a tender-hearted eccentric who, from an unhappy romance in her youth, has derived the philosophy that the secret of happiness lies in trusting those one loves. The Carletons-card-sharping Colonel Anthony (Roland Young), mercenary Marmy (Billie Burke), fortune-hunting Rick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and gold-digging George-Ann (Janet Gaynor)-are a family of international rogues united strongly by their common belief in and proficiency at the more polite forms of mooching, chiseling and outright thievery...
...lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions manufacture...