Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realist, Walter Greenwood gives his poverty-stricken story a fresh angle, distinguishes it from the monotonous, incredible heroics of most proletarian fiction. Main reason the wretched people in Love on the Dole are believable is that they spend little time trying to adjust the work to themselves. Barely surviving, they have their lives full trying to adjust themselves to the world...
Director Reginald Bach, who play Henry Hardcastlc. insisted that Love on the Dole be keyed low. demanded from his actors the understatement which packs the play with dramatic dynamite. In the brief time she has been on the stage, no amount of directing could account for the amazing performance of Wendy Killer. An untrained natural, now only 21, she was playing in a Manchester stock company when Collaborators Gow & Greenwood found her. They selected her because she looked good in shorts and had the Lancashire accent necessary for the part of Sally Hardcastle. They got more than they bargained...
...Next day when Kiepura is in jail because of the egg. Miss Swarthout brings a composer (Philip Merivale) to hear him sing. The composer inspires so much gratitude in Kiepura by giving him a job that Kiepura later leaves the company when he finds the composer is also in love with Miss Swarthout. The complications intervening until the curtain can fall on the Kiepura & Swarthout reunion, after a superb aria in Romeo & Juliet, are concerned with bringing him back, getting rid of the drunken self-worshipping tenor...
Strictly in the new technique for screen operettas, the plot is less a series of music cues than an ornamental bubble tossed on the Hood of song issuing from Kiepura and Swarthout. Best ballads: A Song Kissed the Sky, I Need to Say I Love...
...wail of the pipe and the dull sound of whips, they proceed to a hill of Calvary. The Cristo carries a heavy cross to which, on the hill, he is lashed so tightly that he turns black and puffy. The cross is hoisted up. The Cristo cries: "For the love of God, not with a rope ! Nail me ! Not with a rope ! For the love of God, nail...