Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, one midnight a policeman spied Anthony Sclafani in shorts and bare legs feeding grapefruit to the yaks. In court Sclafani produced a basket of green vegetables, told the magistrate, "See. All fresh vegetables. The yaks love grapefruit...
...Kanner does not believe that Alfred de Musset fell in love at 4, Byron at 8, Dante at 9, Goethe at 10. He believes that they, like many another very young child, had a "crush" on someone. Crushes are not reprehensible, says Dr. Kanner. But they may occasionally lead to sexual affairs, especially if the person adored is not well balanced emotionally...
...Love Me Forever (Columbia) makes it seem probable that the history of grand-opera cinema will not only parallel that of musicomedy in the movies by sticking to one general story but will even copy the same story over & over. As in Grace Moore's preceding picture, One Night of Love, the heroine of Love Me Forever is a struggling opera singer. In this one Miss Moore meets an underworld cabaret owner (Leo Carrillo) who falls in love with her, contrives to get her a job with the Metropolitan Opera, suffers severe pangs until she gives up the notion...
...story, but part of a story within a story which can then be relegated to the less realistic medium of the theatre. In operatic cinema, this complex convention applies even more strongly, since it confers the additional advantage of making it unnecessary to compose a lot of new music. Love Me Forever is therefore both an original story and a sort of sugar-coated version, once removed, of La Boheme, in which Miss Moore, as Mimi, finally makes her gala debut...
...other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized roster of dialect leading men. Best sounds: the Love Duet, from Act I of La Boheme, in which Michael Bartlett outsings Miss Moore...