Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cares that her acting is superficial, operatic, and unconvincing. She plays the role of the aristocratic Rosita Castro, a wisp of a girl who, under the pseudonym of Don Carlos, leads the vigilantes in their fight against the land-stealing Yankee foreigners. Like Joan of Arc, this murder-minded maiden defends her countrymen from their enemies. This is a very thrilling Wild West, made especially for grownups...
...Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets Girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl"; wholesome, mild and quite safe. The humor is light and fairly well paced. It's nice quiet reassuring amusement with a mellowness apparently aimed straight at the maiden aunt section of the audience, which must be considerable...
...Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...
...Moscow, where the big Soviet trusts. Government office buildings and communal apartments flooded their courtyards, stuck up a tree in the centre of each, invited one & all in for joyous skating. Exuberant citizens cut stars out of tin cans and hastily rigged up costumes for Grandfather Frost & the Snow Maiden, traditional bringers of presents...
...pleasant milestones was the cause of the Jacobs' rejoicing. What had happened was that in far-off Manhattan the judges of the Bodd, Mead-Pictorial Review 1935 novel contest had awarded their $10,000 prize to one Margaret Flint. And Margaret Flint was Mrs. Lester Warner Jacobs' maiden name...