Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good Time Charley, after the fashion of the major portion of the season's spoken drama, features the play behind the scenes, the tear behind the smile. Warner Oland, as a woebegone clown, picks his way carefully and with success through the pathos that at times threatens to bog the story. In the supporting cast, Helene Costello supplies decoration, Montague Love villainy and Clyde Cook a fine performance in a minor role...
...performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...model school of the New York Training School for Teachers, began to fear the incessancy of this schoolteacher's routine. She would quite often feel a wave of hatred for her pupils, followed by a sentimental shame which made her look at them with a foolish smile. This amused the children. They could scarcely help writing smutty words on the blackboard or making noises to scare Miss Byrne. The other teachers began to notice that she seemed a little gruff when they met her on the stairs. Once she rated 35 out of a class of 40 "deficient...
...Caesar, Mr. Thaddeus presents the following picture: "Sword in one hand, the incendiary torch in the other, he strides across Gaul, his thin-lipped mouth twisted into a smile as the eagles of his legions scream false promises to the natives.... But legend has chosen to whitewash the tawdry walls of Rome, so that it is Caesar, the far seeing statesman, rather than Caesar the bandit-adventurer, who is in the habit of stepping forward immaculate to take curtain calls as one of history's heroes and supermen...
...hotel room he got out the photographs that had been taken of him years ago. Marceline himself had to smile a little at those merry mocking faces. Then, at four o'clock in the morning, he reached for his revolver and shot himself. His body slumped down by the bed on which the photographs were spread out; when Essie Goodman came in the first time, she went out again very quietly, because she thought he was praying...