Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts has brought Elisabeth Bergner back to Boston for one week, to retrace her sprightly path of vicissitudes through "Escape Me Never." This picture far better than "Katherine the Great," accounts for the extravagant eulogy that critics are wont to toss to the Continental actress. The chief merit of the story is the abundant opportunities it gives its heroine to be versatile in her emotions...
...would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example, her first meander, starting from a glass dragon on her mantelpiece, peters out with a goldfish in Hollywood that swooned during an earthquake and had to be revived with salt water...
...Prize Novel is chosen for "conspicuous merit and the underlying purpose of the award is to give prominence and success to a writer who has not hitherto found a wide audience." The author must be a citizen of the United States and not have published a novel in book form before January...
Whether or not this cork of worldly callousness can bottle up misguided youthful patriotism in time of stress, whether or not this attitude can be maintained in the face of the feminine sneer and the clear, sweet notes of the bugle, in these points lies the test of its merit. It is unfortunate, perhaps, but all too true, that even in contemporary youth there is a fatal weakness for romance that can be fearfully strengthened overnight by the evil genius of war hysteria, a weakness that no amount of premeditated cynicism seems able to control. And there are those, ready...
...approved by the Hays organization. The first is that its agents were not sophisticated enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving together when the picture which includes them has definite esthetic merit. Desire is a romantic comedy of grace, dexterity and charm in which Marlene Dietrich's performance is the best she has given since she became too dignified to exhibit the legs which brought her her first U. S. fame in the Bine Angel...