Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progressing beyond the crudities of the first two years of production, "The Rogue Song", feature picture at the University, is an excellent anodyne for the sentimental slop which has heretofore been the offering of the latest vehicle in dramatic art. "The Rogue Song" has its theme song, its choruses, lavish sets, Technicolor and melodramatic plot, as have countless other musical productions issued from the studios. The distinction is that of the artist...
...type that comparison is futile; they were probably the kind the "gay nineties" reveled in. In the Technicolor sets and the varied camera-shots the hand of the director and the essence of true cinema art may be discerned. The settings are artistically artificial, something entirely different from the lavish Ziegfeld decorations. They are the basis of the whole picture. Incidentally, the film does deserve a mood which is almost impossible to attain in the midst of a Sunday afternoon audience at the University. It should be seen on a week night. "The Rogue Song" is the best musical production...
...lavish use of slanguage, the late Jack Conway is largely responsible. Conway, once a professional baseball player, once a streetcar conductor, was employed when the paper was in its kicking, yelping infancy. A swift writer, he compounded the argot of the ball park, the slum and the green room, helped make possible such journalistic enigmas as: "Crusading Tab Bailies Biz Into Rough Joints," "Ruined by Grift, Carnival Goods Men Turn to Bridge Prize Trade," "Wellman No Like, He Walks...
Although he is not so lavish a charitarian as was Brother-in-Law Bok, he is interested in the Y.M C A. During the War he served as a "Y" secretary in France. He owes allegiance to no church or college...
...Southern California refused to per mit itself to be looked around quietly by these particular tourists. It seized them up in its capacious hospitality and whirled them about in a lavish circuit of inspection. Tremendous crowds bellowed "hurrahs!" at them. Newsmen dogged their heels. Flowers and fruit poured in upon them. California citizens made the visit of a one-time president of the U. S. and his wife a Royal Progress...