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Carmen (Raquel Meller)-She is unspeakably fetching...
...disc similar to a phonograph record. Some theatres have projection machines that can use either Vitaphone or Movietone productions. Mr. Shaw is not the only famed person whose voice and face have been caught by Movietone. Others: Benito Mussolini, Lloyd George, Edward of Wales, Ferdinand Foch, Raquel Meller, Beatrice Lillie, Vatican Choir, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Movietone has also produced two excellent comedies: Funnyman Robert Benchley (of Life) in The Treasurer's Report and a piece of suburban folklore called The Family Picnic.* In these, the conversation and the accompanying action-noises...
FOREIGN INVASION CARMEN (Spanish, Raquel Meller), DAWN (English, Sybil Thorndike), BERLIN: THE SYMPHONY OF A BIG CITY (German, no plot, no subtitles, no stars), THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (Russian, the Soviet triumphant...
Carmen. Made in Spain and directed by a Frenchman, this is the best of a half dozen film versions of Prosper Merimée's mighty story. The reason is Raquel Meller (pronounced May-aire), the sorceress whose rich voice, ink-black locks, hands like moonstruck faces bewitched Manhattanites at $27.50 a head, two springs ago (TIME, April 26, 1926). She is a Carmen incarnate, and not a little carnal. No wonder poor Don Jose (Louis Lerch) became a thief and a murderer! No wonder the audience forgot that the photography was a trifle blinking...
...Raquel Meller has been the object of much myth. However, it is generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago; that she sang in a convent, in fishermen's cafes, before the King of Spain; that she has acquired three maids, eight dogs. 42 trunks of fine clothes; that she smokes cigarets tantalizingly. Her one-time husband, Gomez Carillo, South American journalist, once thought she was insane. But the Pope annulled that marriage...