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Word: lovely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other show in town except Holiday, accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's swing band. Garrick audiences were apparently about evenly divided between middle-aged women and young girls who had heard about Rudy Valentino from their mothers. Wrote one lady patron to the theatre's manager: "I loved him, I loved him, I loved him-I still love him." This week The Son of the Sheik is scheduled to play in 16 cities, including Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Next week, it will be on view in 31. Thereafter, it will play about-500 key circuit theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Old Pictures | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener for the twelve-week festival was a brand new work by owl-faced Old-timer Jerome Kern entitled Gentlemen Unafraid. With a Civil-Wartime libretto carpentered by the experienced hands of Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, Gentlemen Unafraid maintained the best swashbuckling, love & war traditions of the Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Revivals | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...what New York tabloids like to think is a close parallel to l'affaire Simpson, the picture retells the tragic story of Archduke Rudolph, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, who gave up position, property, and finally life itself, for the woman he loved. Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux are no strangers to American audiences, but under the skillful direction of a compatriot. Anatole Litvac, and unhampered by a plot that demands love, spectacle, and a happy ending, they give to their roles a depth of emotional feeling rarely seen on American screens. For those who have not already seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...labors of several generations of archeologists and translators, principally University of Chicago's late, great Professor James H. Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table of one who is greater than thou, take what he may offer thee as it is set before thee. Fix thy gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Utterances that are Strange | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...were a socialist, a beach-comber, or some other sort of undesirable, and fell in love with a wealthy and beautiful young lady, her family would resent it--and she would pretend to. But if you were the only man she had over known, she would end up by marrying you, and paternal benediction would be tardy but inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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