Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marks, too, will make eccentric, narrative dance tunes under such .titles as Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve, Talking Turkey to a Greek. Also planned is a three-part suite concerned with Edward VIII's love for Mrs. Simpson called Canterbury Tales...
Miss Quis (by Ward Morehouse; Vinton Freedley, producer). Liz Quis (Peggy Wood) is a worn spinster who does housework for most of Fancy Gap's prominent townsfolk, including fiery old Colonel Selby, veteran Indian fighter. The Colonel has a great love for Fancy Gap, hates the other leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging...
...place before he was shot. A gangster named Innes (Stanley Ridges) tells her he will lead her to her baby for $1,000 or her "friendship." When she tries to steal the $1,000 Gangster Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that the baby is in an orphanage. As the quaint finale to this sordid story, Mother Haley recognizes her daughter in a row of five tiny tots who line...
Against a background of New London barrooms and immaculately white icebergs this picture dedicated to the bravery and determination of the Coast Guard tells a story of frustrated love at last triumphant. It almost never fails to be quiet entertainment...
Maric's pathetic love affair with the dying Bastien-Lepage, another poor and struggling artist, is described with all the warmth and tenderness the author possesses. These last tragic scenes, when the ready realizes Bashkirtseff herself is doomed, stand out in striking contrast to the earlier, more lively moments of her childhood. Not only does the author capture the mood of her subject, but the very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere...