Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satire modified to focus attention on the romantic elements. Playwright Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such was the anxiety of the adapters to provide a happy ending that the spectator is left undecided. When handsome Conrad Nagel as the tutor drives...
...Steel and leading spirit of the council. Predicting greater business volume soon, he commented on the rising proportion of manufactured goods in exports, found significance in the fact that last year's gain was "achieved in precisely that element of our trade that is directly responsible to merchandising skill and enterprise...
...Pond (Paramount). This is another film that has been tailored?far less elaborately than The Love Parade?to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily...
Percy Sutherland Bullen, U. S. correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, "for clearness . . . fairness . . . skill . . . sympathy...
Pilots flying the night mail through fog and rain that blanket all ground lights, follow a trail of dots and dashes which flow from radio range-beacons into their earphones. But sounds are sometimes deceiving, subject to radio interference. Skill is required to compare the relative strength of opposing signals. And at 15-minute intervals the guiding stream of signals are interrupted completely for broadcast weather reports...