Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosing a clipping from the Washington Herald of January 7th anent the new football coach. The article is appreciative of Mr. Harlow, but it is with a shade of regret that I note that in a moral way his aims, as expressed in the article, as well as those of the lamented Haughton, and, indeed, of Harvard, seem to lack something of the old Puritanical high-mindedness that was went to be associated with Harvard and New England. Clifford R. Richards...
...friend (Douglass Montgomery), although for a moment or two it seems likely that he will succumb to the wiles of Gloria Swanson. Instead of Broadway, the scene is Bavaria and instead of jazz the music is a sort of operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay...
...Flirtation Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private...
Characteristic, without prejudice, was the TIME, Nov. 19 account of the Negro "Gentleman from Illinois." I fear many Southerners-not only "hot-blooded Congressmen from the South"-will let the color of Chicago's new Democratic Representative Arthur Mitchell shade their opinions of his ability. . . . Moving here eight years ago a Chicagoan until then-I have failed miserably in an earnest attempt to find justification for the Southern attitude toward all Negroes...
...shade too long, and at times too conscious of its message, Little Friend (the title is an ironic use of the nickname Hilliard gives to Felicity Hughes) is certainly one of the more distinguished British importations of the season. Good shot: Felicity dancing with the confectioner's boy at her birthday party...