Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this soft-spoken Carl Milles responded: "I am certain that they will love the finished fountain." Somewhat forgotten amid the publicity was the fact that Milles possesses not only the most invigorating fancy now at work in sculpture but an unsurpassed gift for making a powerful, rhythmic composition of many sculptured figures. In his Wedding the strong male figure of the Mississippi and the aloof female Missouri, mounted on swooping fishes, will approach each other in the centre of Aloe Plaza. Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods. To Detroit last week...
...point of love, Commissioners Healy and Hoeflinger were mollified enough to join in a unanimous approval, though "feeling that some modification . . . would be desirable." Said Sculptor Milles: "A fountain should be a gay and happy thing. . . . They ask me why there are sharks in the fountain, when there are no sharks in the Mississippi and I reply that this is an important wedding and the guests have come from...
...Goldwyn-Mayer). Like many another able writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald has gone to Hollywood. In this script, with Edward E. Paramore, he tried to adapt Erich Maria Remarque's novel into a corrosive arraignment of Nazi Germany. They wrote a scene in which a poor Jew proclaimed his love for Germany, another in which a rich Jew refrained from cheating three young gentiles, a scene in which famed books, including Remarque's, were burned by Nazis. Hays office censorship left none of these scenes in the finished picture. Much political content is removed by a camera shot...
...magazines: Ken, Esquire, Film Fun, Thrilling Love, and 24 others; in Ann Arbor, Mich. The agency: ordinance committee of the city council, consisting of three University of Michigan professors, three local businessmen and a tailor. Authority: an ordinance passed in 1895 prohibiting the distribution of obscene literature, providing for fines or jail sentences for violators. After two days of loud protest from the university campus. Ken and Esquire were removed from the banned list on condition that they refrain from publishing obscene matter. Judge of obscene matter: City Attorney William M. Laird...
...prince of swashbucklers, Errol Flynn, plays the lead in the real Douglas Fairbanks manner, winning his duels, his lady love, and the cheers of the multitude all in the same breathless instant...