Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress who has no use for him because she loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac...
Jenkins had gone to school to Henry James, put her down as a writer of subtlety and power. Last week Author Jenkins offered a novel that gave proof, at least, of her versatility: a breezy little romance about a schoolteacher who fell in love with a cinemactor...
...awakened to a realization of Peter's worthlessness and irresponsibility. He had never wanted to be a priest. He had only studied out of fear of her. Old Dennis Fury said, "After all, he's only a boy," but Mrs. Fury could not forgive him, or stop loving and hating him. She sat up all night, staring vacantly at the shabby rooms, while her husband hovered nearby, helpless, pitying, irritated. In the depths of her anguish she tried to find release in work, scrubbed the crumbling house from top to bottom. She worked until her hands grew limp...
Lily MacMillan considered herself a "bright, affectionate girl who knows nothing.'' She was happy with her pleasant work, her sophisticated friends, her artful practice of dodging disagreeable situations. Lovely to look at, light and gracious. Lily "told no anecdotes about admirers, or humorous scrapes in which she herself appeared as a figure of good entertainment value; she did not take out her mirror and gaze, spellbound, at her own reflection; there was nothing consciously graceful about any of her gestures." This paragon of modern virtue fell in love with Lionel...
Lily became conscious of her love with panic. When she found herself talking with affected girlishness she was shocked, but felt queerly exalted and lightheaded: "It was not entirely a pleasant sensation, having in it something of the faint excitement and distress that accompanies flying in dreams." Ackerly, a sea captain who had been drafted to do character bits, possessed a quality that Lily considered secretive glamour but which U. S. readers may put down as plain British dullness. Lily was finally ready to run away with him. But after one look at the dingy, unromantic week-end quarters...