Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comrade Yaroslavsky deplored "the temporary unions" which his smiting of holy matrimony and all things holy in Russia has done so much to encourage. Their effect, he declared, is "often vulgarizing." In a final effort to show that somehow or other marriage is on a higher plane in Soviet Russia today than anywhere else, Godless Yaroslavsky wound up: "Our Communist family differs very notably from the petty bourgeois family. Our family is based on the unity of political striving and ideological interests...
Felicity Hughes (Nova Pilbeam) is a thoughtful, slightly neurotic little girl who senses, without defining, the presence of something appallingly ugly in the relations between her father and mother. She learns enough to perceive that Frank Hilliard, an actor whom her mother admires, is somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner...
...audiences for the first time last week. Critics were quick to appreciate its superb pictorial qualities, the honest artistry with which Director Flaherty photographed his characters as heroic dwarfs against the dark, enormous background of a hungry land and a mighty sea. Audiences were equally quick to feel that somehow, in the absence of dramatic line, Man of Aran missed the essence of its subject...
...Parley gets on and where is Britain? No, not quite where we hoped to see her somehow. In some slippery fashion she got over on the Japanese side of the fence and is now supporting Nipponese equality claims! Empire-Builder, Big Navy England of all nations! And she has the added presumption to offer Japan her good offices, in polite condescension to the Japanese, to mediate and urge the Americans to see their point of view. Admiral Yamomoto no doubt felt that there was something 'fishy' about it all, and that admirable statesman politely refused the tender of good offices...
...companion piece, "Kansas City Princess" is indeed a familiar film. somehow we feel sure that we have seen all this before...