Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film of unusual delight. The tale centers about the attempts of Flambeau (Mr. Lucas) to secure by his usual informal method, the ten famous "Flying Stars" --diamonds of superb beauty, which he desires to place about the glorious neck of Miss Michael with whom he has fallen quite in love. Walter Connelly portrays the wise priest who takes it upon himself to straighten out the lives of Flambeau and his lovely lad. There is an undertone of quite humer and philosophic beauty which lifts the picture far above the limitations of its story...
...Walküre Brünnhilde is a high-spirited amazon, a goddess sired and loved by Wotan who punishes her by making her mortal and banishing her to a rock surrounded by fire. In Siegfried the perfect hero penetrates the flames and Brünnhilde is a woman radiantly in love. In Götterdämmerung the emotional range is so extended that few singers have been able to compass it successfully. In the first act a great Brünnhilde must be tender, exuberantly happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell...
Trainer Belmont and his bushy-haired daughter sang songs about canaries. Then Trainer Belmont divulged a few professional secrets. A good way to reprimand a monkey is to bite it. But canaries must be guided by patience and love. A real singing bird must start his career at eight weeks, when a conscientious master will shut him in a dark room, teach him to imitate a master canary, a human whistle or some musical instrument. A canary that shows promise should practice three hours a day and by the end of a year should have its repertoire fully developed...
...entrust my baby to you, confident it will be cherished and cared for. I know all about Skeezix . . . and the love and devotion he has had at your hands for long years. . . . There is nowhere else in the world I would leave such a treasure...
...publicity attached to winning them, five went to Columbia's famed comedy, It Happened One Night (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934): production; direction (Frank Capra); performances (Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable); adaptation (Robert Riskin). Columbia got two more, best musical scoring and sound recording, with One Night of Love. Best original story was Manhattan Melodrama by Arthur Caesar. Best shorts were The Tortoise and the Hare, La Cucaracha, City of Wax. Best song was "The Continental...