Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marlene, exquisitely sensuous in her black-plumed sophistication, plays Shanghai Lily to the distraction of every male. Particularly furious is the storm roused in the brave English breast of her old love, Captain Harvey, played by Clive Brook, surgeon in the service of Her Majesty. The action revolves around this pair, together with the machinations of the somewhat too facile and too evil Mr. Chang, who is none other than the inevitable Warner Oland, again gone Oriental. Shanghai Lily demands the faith of Harvey and the picture ends as she is getting it in such a fashion as to leave...
Composition led Violinist Loeffler to relinquish the routine of orchestra work 28 years ago. His lovely finespun Mort de Tintagiles had already started critics questioning whether, with such meticulous regard for line, he could rightly be classified with Impressionist Debussy. The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home...
Wagner's Tannhäuser-Overture and Venusberg Music (Victor, 3 records, $6.50). Called the "Paris Version" because in 1861 Wagner added a bacchanale before taking Tannhäuser to the French capital for the pleasure of Princess Metternich, this is sensuous, stupendous Wagner...
...feel that the public and especially TIME readers should be warned by "Cinema" against "scientific" pictures which deceive the hoi polloi by sensuous and sexy "faked shots...