Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard into a theater worthy of Harvard's jubilee, there was an amount of detail and protocol that can scarcely be imagined. On an occasion when correctness must be the First Commandment there was a discouraging lack of precedents to follow. Harvard had never before played host in such lavish fashion, and the rules had to be made up as the game went along. It is certain that Mr. Greene on several occasions must have longed to sit down and write a letter beginning, "Dear Emily Post...
...only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster returned from the Balkans only to be shot dead along with Yugoslav's King Alexander a few days later at Marseille (TIME...
...opera troupe. The troupe's star and manager (Michael Bartlett) decides to present an opera written by Tony for the amusement of Kentucky Derby crowds. Success depends upon getting Soprano Marian to lend her voice. She refuses. How the handsome manager-star finally wins her support in the lavish spectacle solves both her amatory and the family's financial troubles...
...joint product of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...
Jesse L. Lasky and Mary Pickford paid some $400,000 to cast this gossamer in celluloid as their first offering for United Artists release. They ornamented it with an assortment of expensive bit players with lavish sets, with mild satiric sorties on Law, Censorship, the Press, the Family...