Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dipping into the workers' quarter, the gale found an iron stove pipe that was loose in its stone collar, sticking out of a peasant's window. Angrily it ripped out the pipe, broke the window. Inside the hut, flame leaped high, licked the thatch ceiling, quickly gobbled up the whole hut. The gale pulled out the flame like taffy, spread it over the next hut and the next...
...Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated...
...tours as a ballet student. Nijinsky, then 22, had started dancing at three. His parents were extremely talented but because they were born on Polish territory they were never eligible for the Imperial Ballet. They toured the provinces, taking their three children with them. Sometimes they slept in peasant huts, sometimes in filthy hostelries, some-times in shabby theatres. Stanislav, the oldest son, fell from a third-story window, cracked his skull, stunted his intelligence. Father Nijinsky ran off with a dark-eyed dancer. To support the three children Vaslav's mother opened a boarding house in St. Petersburg...
Loew's Orpheum--"Nana." The much publicized Anna Sten takes her debut via Zola; she has a certain peasant-like charm but seems miscast. Recommended to the Dietrich clan...
Loew's Orpheum--"Nana." The much publicized Anna Sten makes her debut via Zola; she has a certain peasant-like charm but seems miscast. Recommended to the Dietrick clan...