Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl, Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). Mary's consequent trip to Reno introduces her to many another specimen of her sex, notably a fat U. S. countess (Mary Boland) with a crush on a cowboy named Buck, and Sylvia Fowler's own marital Nemesis, gay but tenacious Show-girl Miriam Aarons (Paulette Goddard). The drama of The Women is the effort of a good woman to adjust herself to a social pattern in which she is as much at a disadvantage as a Pekingese out foraging with a pack of Siberian wolves. Mary does succeed in keeping her happiness...
Although M. G. M. added such embellishments as a misplaced fashion show to the Clare Boothe play that ran 19 months on Broadway in 1936-38,* The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. Prevented by the nature of the cast from publicizing the picture with a studio romance, M. G. M. pressagents did not discourage the assumption of fan writers that its trio of temperamental stars were engaged in a studio feud. This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft...
...shoemaker who forged credentials for Nurse Cavell and her friends. He not only did the décor, but re-enacted his old role. Retired U. S. Ambassador to Brussels Hugh Gibson, who was Secretary of the Legation in Brussels in 1915, allowed Producer Wilcox to show him vainly pleading for Edith Cavell with the German authorities on behalf of his ailing chief, Minister Brand Whitlock. In one instance Producer Wilcox rejected history as too melodramatic. One member of the Cavell firing squad, a private named Rammler, refused to carry out his command, followed Nurse Cavell before his comrades...
...Millier, were joined by Los Angelenos who beheld the glories of art in San Francisco and were abashed. In February Los Angeles County responded by snagging, as its new art curator, Roland McKinney, the serious, easy-mannered young man who combed America for the San Francisco Fair's big show of contemporary paintings (TIME, March 6). Roland McKinney has great repute among museum directors because of his work at the Baltimore Museum from 1929 to October 1937. A strong believer in the Federal Art Project, he thinks "we are about ready to go over the top toward something approaching...
Looking thus at da Vinci's art, Kenneth Clark finds himself most attracted to certain works of precisely the same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...