Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen...
PRESENTING LILY MARS-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Author Tarkington's memory, straying fondly over his own early love for the stage, has lingered long enough to inspire a sentimental romance about the U. S. theatre some 20 years ago. Presenting Lily Mars concerns a Southern smalltown girl whose...
At 9 a. m. the first day Sato quailed as sirens howled over the entire Tokyo area of 5,000,000 people. He trotted to his doorstep with pails of water, set them outside to extinguish imaginary fires. Overhead he saw enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the...
When Marie Dressier writes for publication, her words are often more sentimental than spontaneous. The flavor of a character which is attractive because it has remained warm, vulgar, direct, somewhat unsophisticated but far from unwise is conveyed better in the extemporaneous Dressier aphorisms that Hollywood especially admires. "I ought to...
A tainted Crown Prince, deathly pale, spindle-shanked and likely to bleed to death from the dread disease hemophilia, supplied Spanish Republicans with one of their best reasons for ousting the Royal House (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.) Last week sentimental Cuban matrons murmured that love can cure and...