Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belonging to this or the other party. There must be some mistake. How do you account for the fact that there are Communists in the Polish parliament if merely being a Communist is punishable by death? ... If I get no response from you I shall get the cold facts somehow. IRWINE E. GORDON Cleveland, Ohio
...little schooners, ketches, sloops, some with modern sails, some with gaff rigs, Genoa jibs, fishermen's staysails, all bound for Hamilton, Bermuda. All were well provisioned, for sometimes it takes twelve days to get there. No boat has ever been sent out for stragglers; they all get in somehow. There have been accidents, torn sails, broken masts, but no one has ever been lost. Each captain picked his own course, looking for wind. First to reach Hamilton was Dr. George W. Warren's Yankee Girl II of Manhattan, undaunted by a bursting waterspout less than a mile...
...Road, is not really oldfashioned. Its situation-the consternation of an English family when faced with the possible marriage of one of its scions with a Gaiety-girl-is ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil Rathbone act it as well as you can conceive of its being acted. But somehow its balance and unity have been altered. Faithful to its original, The Lady of Scandal is fair entertainment, but it never becomes a moving picture. Dénouement-Miss Chatterton, forced to live on trial for six months in the house of her prospective in-laws, falling in love with...
...means her no good, but who realizes his true love for her when she resists his advances after a cold bottle and a warm bird. Lawrence Gray, the male lead, plays his part with proper seriousness and the rest of the cast have been persuaded somehow to conceal their consciousness of the text's value as burlesque. It is a good cast, but Miss Davies, probably the most skillful comedienne in pictures, lovely in her trailing gowns, is better than the rest of them all the time. Typical shots: the bathing party, the bicycle picnic, the harmony singing, the love...
Bride of the Regiment (First National). Somehow music and light, gracious playing gave that stilted musical comedy, The Lady in Ermine, a charm as a stage production which it has lost in cinema. Better direction might have made acceptable the earnest efforts of the large and mediocre cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical...