Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat-footed imperialists, let me say that TIME'S objective coverage of the Royal Visit was TIMEly. The Canadian press, usually independent, fell flat on its face in the wave of hysteria which trailed the visit from coast to coast. "She smiled" and the press took over the role of angels...
...account of it commented on what a rest it must have been to them to stare at this magnificent, regal mountain splendor, unwatched, after consistently playing the other role. It concluded with the remark that Mount Donald which towers over Field was cloud-capped during the visit and did not uncover for "God Save the King...
...White Man's Burden in Asia on its sagging shoulders. The U. S., although its Navy was growing, had only recently passed a neutrality law, had signaled its desire to grant independence to the Philippines, leading Japan to conjecture that the U. S. might be abdicating its role in the Far East forever...
Main feat of this cinema was not in thus delicately bringing Tarzan a son, but in concealing the fact that Maureen O'Sullivan (Mrs. John Villiers Farrow) was to have one of her own almost as soon as the film was finished. Cinemactress O'Sullivan undertook the role three and a half months before her child was expected, finished the job with only a month to spare. Cameraman Leonard Smith shot Miss O'Sullivan behind fern fronds, through leafy screens, at respectful distances, permitted his camera to drop no hint of her own infanticipation...
...trip nowhere had more influence than on George VI himself. Two years ago he took on his job at a few hours' notice, having expected to play a quiet younger brother role to Brother Edward all his life. Pressmen who followed him around the long loop from Quebec to Halifax were struck by the added poise and self-confidence that George drew from the ordeal. Filled with new pride in their King & Queen, Britons were preparing to give them a monster welcome-with millions lining the railroad right-of-way to London -calculated to top anything the Yankees...