Word: pompousness
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...plot of "La Grande Duchesse et le Garcon d'Etage," is laid in modern France and centers around an attractive young girl, Xenia, who, with her uncle, the pompous Grand Duke Paul, and her cousin the Grand Duke Pierre, has been exiled by the Russian revolution...
...stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing rich and affecting pathos and frustration to the difficult role of pompous Major Domo Malvolio...
Boheme with winsome Queena Mario and pompous little Gigli, Salome, Traviata, Cavalleria, Hansel und Gretel, Manon, Tannhduser, Mignon, Girl of the Golden West, Lucia ? the Los Angeles repertoire and reactions were much the same as in San Francisco. Boxofficially Soprano Maria Jeritza was greatest at traction. Gigli got the galleries. Critics were most eager to hear Clare Clairbert, new Belgian coloratura...
...troops which were not his closed in upon Peking last week "President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...
...sophistication out of which Philip Barry fashioned the best comedy of the 1928-29 theatrical season has not, in translation to the screen, been exchanged for the crude, stuffy plushes of Hollywood naivete. Presenting the situation of a youth engaged to marry an heiress but unwilling to accept the pompous responsibilities of great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have a holiday, is followed to Paris by Julia's little sister, a typical talkie...