Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judas. Guido Mayr, hale, clever woodcarver, is to be villain for the second time. But Johann Zwink, who played the role several times, will continue to be missed whether Mayr is good or bad. For Zwink, a mellow, watery-eyed, lovable ancient, now exceedingly poor, is considered by many in the village to have been the best character actor that Oberammergau ever had. His was naturally a Judas face. Because his spirit was quite otherwise, he used to rehearse his part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally...
...upended his glass. Cried Dramatist St. John Greer Ervine: "To the drama!" Sparkling-eyed Actress Violet Vanbrugh responded to this toast. Later Mr. Ervine, who spent the winter of 1928-29 in Manhattan taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare could not abstain from making puns...
...public curiosity instead of stimulating it. This time the idea of having the camera follow Buster Keaton around the Culver City lot, where famed directors and entertainers are at work, is more successful than usual. It is a Merton-of-the-Movies story, with the comedian talking in a mellow voice that takes only a little sharpness out of his pantomime. Best shot: Keaton, cast as a messenger in a historical drama, trying to deliver the line: "The queen has swooned...
...Mellow and temperate, with a voice that trailed away vaguely, Schoolmaster Taft gave some Dry views of his own: "There may be a larger percentage of college men drinking today but the drunkenness is not one-twentieth what it was in my day. The scenes I've seen in New Haven if found there today would be cabled all over the world...
With a soldier's mellow sentimentality General Ismet continued: "We want our daughters, at the urging of their mothers, who, with their heads ornamented with the flowers of Anatolia, than's to the vigor of their healthy bodies, transported munitions in our time of need, to consecrate themselves to the pursuit of a vigorous physique. We want them ... to exhale the perfume of the flowers of our mountains, and to reflect the spirit of economy and sobriety...