Word: murmered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came "Rosalie," perhaps the most repulsive musical mouse to escape from Hollywood in some time. Nelson Eddy has a script that calls for romantic acting, but wisely abandons this after the first ten minutes and does nothing from then on but sing "In The Still of the Night" and murmer "I love you" in sort of a weak whisper. Eleanor Powell is well cast, because she is also unable to act. She appears in those long black silk stockings, does a few unoriginal dance numbers and lets it go at that. It is left to Frank Morgan and a light...
Widener is wondering, too, and very much interested in finding the answer. Desultory though it may have been to undergraduate criticism in the past, Widener now has an ear to the ground, anxious to catch the murmer of a disgruntled patron. Several avenues which might provide a solution to the problem have been suggested. First is the old recommendation for personalization. Like Grand Central Station, Widener is big, moving, and impersonal, and it is difficult to add a "homey" note to a building constructed for dignity rather than coziness. A suggestion of much more practical import, however, is that...
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