Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This modern miracle play is the conversion of a sensitive middle-aged man John Loving, back to the Catholic form of Christianity through a perfect marriage. John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly...
...merits of the bill are of course, self evident, but the really decisive argument for its passage is offered by a casual scrutiny of the opposition lobby. It is no surprise to find the compounders of ineffective panaceas, love charms, unmentionables, and spurious venereal disease cures on this role d'honneur--for the passage of the bill would render them criminals. The participation of the backers of such widely used and palpably respectable products as Castoria, Midol, Cascarets, Crazy Crystals, and Ovaltine is the significant fact. This is patently a confession of deceptive advertising which can and must eventually...
...throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline of a novel he was going to write. He had taken a correspondence course in finger printing, but had changed his mind about being a detective. Johnny paid her a heartfelt compliment, called her "a thorn rose, growin...
...that Ludwig Lewisohn had written another novel. A humorless and determined individualist, Author Lewisohn has gradually accustomed most U. S. readers to treat his output with restrained respect. A solemn harping on the string of self-expression, An Altar in the Fields tells nothing new about Lewisohn, life or love...
...dialogue as a rule moves quickly with plenty of repartee, except when the producer tries to inject sentimentality into it. As for the characterization, Clark Gable of course heads the list as the woman-hating reporter who drifts into the ways of love. Walter Connolly, as Mr. Andrews, does remarkably well. But Miss Colbert is convincing in spite of playing second fiddle to Mr. Gable and because her lines are inherently good. Most of the "local color" characters speak with a labored accent but are rather picturesque...