Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to be Damiens; a man may conceive his duty more narrowly, he may love his comforts better; none will cast a stone at him for that. But will a gentleman of your reverend profession allow me an example from the fields of gallantry? When two gentlemen compete for the favor of a lady, and the one succeeds and the other is rejected, and (as will sometimes happen) matter damaging to the successful rival's credit reaches the ear of the defeated, it is held by plain men of no pretensions that his mouth is, in the circumstance, almost...
...seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether cinemaddicts will enjoy the picture will depend essentially on their feeling about Joe Penner...
...have had her for the asking, but he had scruples. Sculptor Ulitsch, ruthless woman-hunter, fascinated her, then frightened her away. She took refuge with an unfeminine girlfriend, and Bohemia was soon calling her "one of those." Then Eva ran away to Italy and discovered a new kind of love in her adoration of a Franciscan monk. Not only saintly but wise, he kept her from entering a convent, sent her back to work, told her to wait until the right man came along...
...broken leg making a touchdown for Williams in a victory over Harvard. His father's suicide puts him in touch with a cousin, Mario Van de Weyer, who represents still another problem for the young moralist to solve. Educated in Europe, Mario is sophisticated, reckless, experienced in love, enjoys flattery, presents, bright clothing, admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When Mario leaves Harvard hastily, after an actress is discovered in his roo'm, Oliver befriends him, straightens out his finances, feels no moral revulsion. Yet as Oliver grows to manhood he learns that...
...story is so much tripe. Coleman breaks the bank at Monte Carlo using his friends' money as a stake. The Casino puts a pretty girl, and Joan Bennett is that, on his trail to lure him back to gambling. But she falls in love with him just as he falls in love with her. They have an awful todo when they discover the real identity of each other but get married anyway and apparently Joan becomes a Grand Duchess. While the whole thing is rather amusing, it is time Coleman were allowed to do the character parts for which...