Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Herr Professor who wrote the music for last week's operetta and stood in the pit to conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor...
John Erskine's formula-recasting romantic old tales in ironic, belittling modem dialog-caught the public fancy, made his Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) a U. S. bestseller. The formula has worn a little thin, but Erskine tales still make pleasant enough reading. Erskine admirers may solace...
They were a people of violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in...
Sirs: If I had the "ungovernable temper" which you ascribe to me, I would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of...
Uptown New York was written by Vina Delmar with dangerous recklessness as to motivation but with a good eye for local color. The hero and heroine meet each other in a ladies' room-which, as the cinema becomes less pastoral, is growing in popularity as a romantic setting-but...