Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pageantry, fine acting and powerful emotional drama combine to make "Marie Antoinette," current offering at the University, splendid entertainment. Norma Shearer's characterization of the French queen, whose throne brings her only disillusionment, loneliness, and finally death itself, is touching if over-favorable in its presentation. Unfortunately Tyrone Power, Miss Shearer's leading man, does not give her the support she deserves. His portrayal of Court Fersen is un convincing; in the emotional heights of tender love scenes, he appears stiff and wooden. What the film suffers in this respect, however, is more than compensated for by Robert Morley...
When both his eyes were completely covered by cataracts, the sickness that comes with the attacks passed. At the sound of other horses going out for their rides Elmer Gantry whinnied nervously, stamped, pawed the ground with impatience. Miss Getzendaner decided to take him out. At first he stumbled hesitantly and nervously over the ground, but he seemed to like it. In the beginning she would only let him walk, after a few weeks allowed him a tentative trot, finally a gallop...
...longer picked his feet high off the ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...
...making a wallflower of sex in the musical field, and Knickerbocker Holiday shrewdly woos the reigning favorite, gives Nieuw Amsterdam and Pieter Stuyvesant a queer suggestion of the New Deal and F. D. R. Dutchman Stuyvesant (Walter Huston) is pictured as a would-be dictator outraging the hit-or-miss "American" who hates political systems, hates to take orders...
...decline & fall. Harry is such a skunk-like character that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In this sequel Author Weidman gives Harry a moral shellacking which only an idiot could miss. But before Harry goes down he puts on a fast show. After loafing three months on his last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble is that Martha is a smarter guy than Harry: Before she is through with...