Word: rusticity
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...Informer (RKO). When considering the Irish, the fixed policy of Hollywood in the past has been to do so in terms of either Abie's Irish Rose or Peg o' My Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a cow-eyed crooner with a rush of brogue to the face can be classed immediately as a daring experiment. The Informer, of which the hero is a drunken, overgrown, dull-witted and cowardly Dublin bully, is a daring experiment and considerably more. Adapted by Dudley Nichols from Liam O'Flaherty...
Since Their Majesties are resting on the rustic outskirts of Eastbourne in preparation for the Jubilee, the Empire heard of them last week only that George V had allowed his hand to be seized and vigorously pumped by "Dusty" Matthews, 86, a village character who approached the King-Emperor as he was strolling on the beach...
Spinster Dickinson War-nursed all over what is now Yugoslavia. She shares the enthusiasm of hundreds of Britons, Germans and Americans who have discovered that rustic Yugoslavia, cheap, romantic and wildly beautiful, would be a vacation Eden, if only the food were not so coarse, the sheets so grey, the inside plumbing so rare. Last week indomitable Miss Dickinson had undertaken the flotation of The Wanderer's Shelters Ltd. and was busy designing and ordering hostels and furniture. Said Pioneer Dickinson: "Our small hotels and guest houses will be dotted over the lesser known, completely unspoiled rural districts...
...indirection. That one of the Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...
Connecticut used to be one of the New England states, and to New Englanders it still is, but Manhattanites tend to think of it as a rustic week-end resort. To Iowa-born Phil Stong, writing of the sophisticated eccentricities of a Manhattanite smart set, Connecticut is a natural setting for their Jabberwockian gimblings. Author Stong's brilliant exaggeration has made even his native Iowa a melodramatic backdrop; with the iridescent decadence of a Westerner's East in which to dip his brush, he has outdone himself. His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told...