Word: juanita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such characteristic par that those fleecing moments when he is in repose have the surprise value of a Second Coming. Ian Hunter and Freddie Bartholomew, the Englishmen most painfully implicated, are more polite about it than there is any reason to expect of them. Tim's sister, Juanita Quigley, a fat little colleen with remarkable eyes, will bear watching...
Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...
...fascinating and hitherto unexploited new use of music is in motion pictures. Until two or three years ago this department was a farce. The director would stick in a few bars of the William Tell overture to reinforce an action scene, or a few tender notes from "Juanita" for the love scene, and let it go at that. Historical settings would be sketched in by three or four tinkles of a harpsichord. Seeing the movie version of Our Town the other day brought home forcibly to me the tremendous recent advance in the quality of cinema music. Aaron Copland...