Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...
...Kurihara's friends have faith in his advice. They believe that he has sometimes made fat killings and on the whole does better than the average trader. The course of the market during the past month has justified his letter of Feb. 10 in which, after a lyric description of spring, he said: "Just so the stockmarket, paralyzed by fear for business and liquidation by wearly holders of stocks, having passed through the period of depression (Winter), gives signs to the initiated of the dawn of a new era (Spring), with its many opportunities to the alert and thoughtful...
...coherent entity. Such long narrative poems must be more than a collection of vivid images to make a lasting impression on the reader. The undiscriminating bunches of images and short imaginative flights so often strung into a narrative of sorts would be much better chopped up into separate lyrics. They need to be strongly and vigorously subordinated to the central motif so that they do not stand out as an occasional flashing jewel on a wire but, as Mr. Morrison succeeds so well in doing, they should appear as integral and inseparable parts of the whole poem. It is true...
...poets' wives are fitted to write about their lately lyric husbands, but some do. Latest rusher-in is Helen Thomas, relict of the late Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917. If you have a sweet tooth for idyllic romance you will chew on this with gusto; if not, World Without End may make your teeth a little edgy...
Peter Ibbetson was Composer Taylor's third choice of subject. He had worked first on Heywood Broun's Candle Follows His Nose. Becoming involved in Broun's allegory, he dropped it for Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Deems Taylor music is essentially lyric and charming. Street Scene is sordid, grim. Composer Taylor shelved it for Peter Ibbetson the evening he met Constance Collier at a party given by Katherine Cornell. In his libretto he followed the structure of the Peter Ibbetson which Miss Collier adapted in 1917 as a play for herself and the Barrymore Brothers...