Word: karen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aristocratic Samuel Talifer, an admiral At least, if mot a monarch in appearance, returned after ten years' absence to his native village, whose obvious though unstated locale is New England. There he met and fell in love with Althea. Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath...
...intellect and indifference, whose favorite reading in a hot New England summer is Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius Rhodius. In her Talifer imagined he saw an ideal of Peace, imagined he preferred it to the earthier happiness Althea offered him. Abruptly, after breaking with Althea to marry Karen, he was disillusioned, abruptly returned to his first love...
...printed as blank verse is no reason for thinking that it actually is blank verse. Sometimes this casual prosiness is unintentionally comic, as when he makes a minor character think of Karen...
...less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy...
...When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...