Word: modelied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs; he can throw the property sordid glamour over Marline, the whore refusing a be in a flop-house because...
...which was last year's question, and the Isolation of the United States. The resolution is to be framed by a sub-committee which will, in turn, send it to the heads of delegations from the 30 nations that will be represented at the meeting of the Assembly. The mode of procedure for the gathering will be determined by a committee of which wills, who has had experience in English Universities in such work, is chairman...
...plot of the production hinges about a poor shopkeeper's family, which has risen to great wealth through a lucky number in a lottery. After tasting the pleasures acquired by its riches, the family returns to its former mode of life, which it considers far more enjoyable. Andre Lefaur, who created the original role of Topaze, in the recent play of the same name, which was produced in Franco before coming to this country, has the lead...
Folk who are decorating their homes with Victorian antiquities this autumn, in accordance with the mode, would do well to go and see the decorations which Robert Edmond Jones has provided for Camille. Producer Delos Chappell & wife, who first presented the revival at Central City, Colo. this summer (TIME, Aug. 1), have arranged their own translation of the script without, apparently, distinguishing it from previous translations. After four weeks in Manhattan, Camille, Miss Gish and the scenery will take to the road...
Last week not one censorious peep came from the nation's reformers when from Bernarr Macfadden's publishing house issued a magazine containing twelve photographic portraits in the nude. The subjects were cute, provocative, but not in the usual Macfadden mode. They were all infants. Announced two months ago (TIME, July 25), Mr. Macfadden's new monthly magazine Babies Just Babies was out, edited by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt assisted by her daughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall...