Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Rome, Madrid and the Orient, M. Morand quickly turned his energies to fiction and a study of the Negro. He is best known in the U. S. for his book, Open all Night. Thirty-nine, married, high-foreheaded, dark, hv tops the new generation of French and sensuous realists. "M. Claudel," said he, "is the greatest of Catholic poets...
...meet in the course of a day, no vision of a woman would be enshrined there. No woman ever penetrates to the soul of a man, despite all things said to the contrary. . . . Left in their proper relation to man women are all that is delicious, adorable, sensuous. They are, in a large sense, necessary to our physical wellbeing...
...Orleans, the one city in the U. S. with a sensuous background, puts on the show year after year. As the last whoops of one carnival die out in the warm spring breezes off the Gulf, diligent managers are promoting the program for the ensuing year. They call in artists, discuss costumes and motifs; they plan and plot, calculate. The show must go on! It is a mint. Then there is the tradition which must not be overlooked...
...former efforts. The opening scenes in Pekin and the Philippines started the picture in an extremely fine manner. The happy-go-lucky life of Quirt and Flagg among the women of the town was vividly rendered. In fact few domestic pictures have been so full of well-handled and sensuous scenes as was this one. From the Philippines the picture jumps to France, and Flagg, now a captain, is in the throes of another love affair from which he will ultimately be snatched by his great rival, Quirt. Whenever these two men come on together the picture...
...Cohen-McNamara comedy combination will make the Beery-Hatton one look to its laurels. Charmaine of France, Shanghai Mabel, and Carmen of the Philippines are amusingly sensuous. . . . . and the picture makes no bones about it either. The real credit for the excellent work in the picture should go to Raoul Walsh, the director. He has caught the idea of Stallings and Anderson to teach pacifism by examples from the horrible side of war. With this in mind his scenes centering around the "Mother's Boy" are gripping and moving. The underground dugout scene, so powerful on the stage, has increased...