Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen to better advantage than she was in Holiday and Paris Bound, those stoically wisecracking comedies which Philip Barry wrote before he turned serious. She has held her own in a review, The New Yorkers, without singing a bar. In The Passing Present, Actress Williams is called upon to portray the kindly, knowing sister in a quietly dissolving first family of Manhattan...
...years ago Alfred Lief published a collection of Mr. Justice Holmes' dissenting opinions. Now in a companion volume to this earlier one, the same editor has collected opinions which portray the jurist not as the "Great Dissenter" but as the spokesman for the majority of the Court...
Moving pictures of last summer's naval R. O. T. C. cruises will be shown at the new School of Geography on Monday and Tuesday at 3.15 o'clock. They portray the voyage of the Harvard Juniors on the destroyer U. S. S. Tillman from Boston to Bermuda, and the trip of the Sophomores and Freshmen of Harvard, Georgia Tech., North-western, and Yale from Boston to Halifax and Norfolk on the U. S. S. Arkansas; admission is free to all members of the University...
...seen have three regrettable characteristics. The first is an irritating slowness of action, a habit of dragging out all scenes to the end and beyond. The director does not seem to trust the audience to understand what is going on merely by a series of flashes. He will portray a man crossing a field, not as in an American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive, registering "emotion," what Dr. Cannon calls...
...effort to show how innocent by-standers can be drawn into criminal proceedings, the director achieved a picture of family life which was undeniably real. Frances Starr and Grant Mitchell portray the parents with a naturalness which is extremely gratifying. The acting of Miss Starr where she is frantic for the welfare of her family deserves nothing but praise, and whereas Charles (Chic) Sales, who specialized as the grandfather, was guilty of exaggeration, Walter Huston played the prosecutor with more feeling than is usual in the case of screenland officials. "The Star Witness", in spite of occasional lapses, is sincere...