Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite singer. Her voice is of surprising beauty, and it is a delight to hear her run up and down the scale and slide long and clearly on bar E. Jeannette McDonald and Grace Moore come nowhere near the charming and unaffected little French girl who sparkles in every scene like a jewel. Add Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer, and some elegant swing by Andre Kostelanetz and you've got something, "That Girl From Paris" to be exact...
...Government and in private business. A lowered mental or physical vigor leads men to avoid an examination of complicated and changed conditions. Little by little, new facts become blurred through old glasses fitted, as it were, for the needs of another generation; older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the present or the future...
...named Gertrude and George. They like gambling, but not together because "that's bad luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally for a serious role but Harry confesses: "I can't play straight, I get too embarrassed. Right in the middle of a scene I get to thinking how ridiculous all this...
...most impressive of them was the final scene in the combat between Rustum, the veteran paladin, and Isfandiyar, the youthful hero. In the picture, which is considered a masterpiece of this early Persian style, the human tragedy is conveyed solely by the pose of the two figures...
...role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini died. Hospital authorities said: "Shock resulting from...