Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flirtation Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private...
...finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert (Tom Brown) whose mother, as a girl, had jilted Matthew. It is a characteristic of the lavender-&-old-lace-school in the cinema that such slight pretexts cause tremendous difficulties. It takes a normal-school career for Anne, a deathbed scene for Matthew, to reunite the lovers...
...Vienna. But Strauss's comedy, an authentic product of genius, offers more than buffoonery. The role of the Marschallin, sung by Lotte Lehmann, is as subtle a character as any in opera. Here is a woman both beautiful and middleaged. She must be dignified and she must also love a young man ecstatically - while around her whirls the laughter of low comedy...
...with the Marschallin. Trapped there in the early morning, he hastily dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their...
...Anderson's justification for Elizabeth the Queen on this score is that the play was intended to describe the love difficulties of a young man and an old woman. Mary of Scotland's thesis was that history is written by the survivors. But, more than any other, the problem of government has been agitating Playwright Anderson ever since the U. S. entered its recent critical years. His attitude toward government is strictly anthropological: governments come and governments go, depending on the whims of the governed...