Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery window. When the portrait's model (Joan Bennett) turns up and they fall into conversation, the professor feels he is on the brink of adventure. Throwing caution to the winds, he goes to her apartment-quite literally to look at etchings. But when the girl's lover bursts in and attacks him, Wanley in self-defense stabs him to death with a pair of scissors...
Pastoral. In The Bronx, William Sher man, who identified himself as a nature lover and salesman of physical-culture books, was found guilty of the charge of shaving in a public-park drinking fountain...
...Cornwall, the miracle happens. Her new butler William (Cecil Kellaway) has a friend and master hiding in the vicinity who has been using her bed and building fancies about her portrait. This vagabond lover (Arturo de Cordova) is a Frenchman with a taste for Ronsard, tabac and sketching seabirds. He is also wonderfully handsome and softspoken, and he thrills her with his talk of being free, free, a law unto himself. He manages this by piracy, robbing the rich and giving generously to the poor. Stimulated by this philosophic man of action, Lady St. Columb begins to act like...
Bride by Mistake (RKO-Radio) had every right to be a perfectly awful mistake, but turns out to be pretty amusing. Its raw material is one of those five-&-dime stories about the sensitive multimillion-heiress (Laraine Day) who, eager to be sure that her lover (Alan Marshal) is not overvaluing the basely fiscal aspects of their relationship, swaps places with her secretary (Marsha Hunt) and all but bangs the pair's heads together. The surprising finished product is the result of the fact that the film is written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, directed by Richard Wallace...
...artistic. The French Revolution did not produce a single opera. Not a single opera, mind you, was composed to praise freedom." The audience began to hiss. Cried Ludwig: "I have met and interviewed three dictators [Mussolini, Kemal Ataturk, Joseph Stalin]. . . . I have found that each was a great music lover. . . ." He summed up by declaring that music, like religion, is a force that can be used by friend or foe alike. Commented the chairman of the Congress, Lawrence Morton: "It was in an excess of tolerance and democracy . . . that we allowed Mr. Ludwig to speak...