Word: iii
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about praising her ancestors and trying to hide evidence; her amiable son (Emlyn Williams), her frightened niece (Katherine Wilson); two plug-ugly footmen, one romantic, one comic and one effective police officer. Less vigilant spectators will be in anxious seats until Actor Williams begins to smile late in Act III. The cast of this loosely pasted thriller snoop, scream, poke their hands through false panels in professional manner. Actor Williams is particularly shrewd with his part. So is Actress Carlisle, who still commands the forensic gift with which she seconded the vice-presidential nomination of Calvin Coolidge...
Even when its stately Oriental pace tires, which it does particularly in the beginning of Act III, Actress Alia Nazimova as OLan commands respectful attention. It is her play. She it is who makes Wang Lung (Claude Rains) buy his first bit of land. Although Wang grows rich and soft as she grows sick and old, it is her death which brings Wang back to the good earth of his and her fore fathers...
...Ariz. 3 0 0 Ark. 3 3 0 Cal. 47 17 15 Col. 8 2 1 Conn. 49 16 15 Del. 3 0 1 D.C. 5 3 2 Florida 6 0 2 Ga. 11 7 2 Hawaii 4 0 2 Idaho 3 2 0 III. 57 20 15 Ind. 19 2 1 Iowa 13 6 3 Kan. 3 0 0 La. 2 1 1 Md. 9 3 1 Maine 17 3 5 Mass. 698 147 127 Mich. 22 4 6 Minn. 23 6 7 Miss. 18 14 6 Mont. 5 1 1 Nebr...
With or without malice aforethought Dictator Benito Mussolini picked October, one of the hottest months of the whole Eritrean year, to send short-legged, barrel-chested King Vittorio Emmanuele III on his first visit to Eritrea...
...bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude by Charles Landelle nearly six feet long. The valuable pictures Morosini owned were all 18th Century views of Venice...