Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary picture. The companion piece is amply entitled "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," the original stage title "Biography" apparently possessing too little of that certain lift which brings the boys rushing to the box office. Ina Claire's stage role is handled by Ann Harding with comparative skill and the film manages to maintain a goodly amount of the play's diverting sophistication...
...central roles Dennis King and Edith Barrett achieve performances of truly outstanding skill. Mr. King leads a romantically vital touch to his Parnell which makes the utter devotion of Mrs. O'Shea and the Irish Party thoroughly credible. Miss Barrett has a most appealing presence and performs with a sympathetic restraint which quite overbalance her slightly Philadelphia acoant...
...Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...
...Cornell's interpretation of the maid Joan occupies the center of attention and, as always, her acting is profoundly mature and thoroughly compelling if somewhat stylized. The supporting cast is so uniformly excellent as to defy any graduation of honors. Maurice Evans portrays the incapable weakling Dauphin with a skill that renders the character quite lovable. John Emery has taken over Brian Aherne's part as the swaggering very English Earl of Warwick and does it quite as well as did the estimable Mr. Aherne. Eduardo Ciannelli as the Bishop of Beauvais, Charles Waldron as the senior French cleric...
...make a coherent picture out of thousands of disconnected facts, how to critically appraise his field, and how to acquaint others with his knowledge. Only a flesh and blood individual, trained by flesh and blood teachers, can knead the plastic and indigestible thing called knowledge into beneficial roughage. His skill is acquired through an active mind as well as learned lessons. Because of deficiencies in the English language which even Copey has been unable to rectify, this part of a Langer must be described as personality, inspiration, genuineness. When it is missing, students might just as well forsake the classroom...