Word: savoir
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...Count wants to look over mama before he exudes the paternal blessing. By dint of the efforts of a sentimental gambler, a role which, to speak euphemistically, is interpreted by Warren William, the old apple seller is ensconsced in an apartment, and given quite an air of savoir faire and other little spices. The lunacy winds up in a general turmoil, in the midst of which the Governor, the Mayor, and other figures come to old Annie's reception, and fill the heart of the Count with that delicate sentiment of satiated snobbishness which is needed before he give...
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...this production, directed by Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery play through the almost actor-proof situations of the comedy with savoir-faire which equals if it does not excel that of their predecessors, Author Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence.* It is a play about two tender-hearted but irascible worldlings who, having divorced each other and remarried, meet again on their second honeymoons. Re-captivated by each other, they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place...
...Unholy Garden (United Artists). Ronald Colman is the cinemactor who exemplifies romantic savoir faire. His admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...
...provide a background for Colman's savoir faire, Hecht & MacArthur made him a patrician burglar seeking what seems a most unlikely sanctuary in a ruined castle on the Algerian desert. He reaches this stronghold by making off with a fancy auto in which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with...