Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exchange, but they listened to the shooting diarist's quickly hired Paris lawyer. His story was that Ambassador de- Chambrun had broken off a French woman's great romance with the Italian Dictator, and so naturally she shot him. "Naturellement, Messieurs! Mark you, gentlemen, the great love of her life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official German radio stations were soon broadcasting the substance of French reports which were printed ten days before the shooting by Paris' often amazingly forehanded...
...will be disappointed, the more's the pity because the show is a good one. It is not a study of witchcraft and bigotry in an isolated community nor is it a picture of life in Colonial New England. It is simply a good adventure story with clean, true love surmounting a series of exciting perils...
Fred McMurray plays a hotblooded political rebel from Virginia with a price on his head and a sword in his belt, who flees north to a romance with a Puritan daughter chaffing at her restrictions. Their secret love--complete with assignations in the woods and kisses in the dark--runs up against some difficulties. Through a mistake a Salem wife becomes jealous, McMurray is kidnapped by sailors which climaxes with the conviction of Miss Colbert herself. The executioner is placing the noose about her neck when Fred charges up on a horse and explains that it is all a mistake...
...does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening, "Ah, Romeo!" it's a moment...
Unassuming, Fuller concluded with the statement that he didn't write to portray life or for the pure love of creating. "I'm interested in the life of a writer . . . no time-clocks...