Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve when he and Maggie team...
...plot of the story surrounds the cruel legalized murder of Briget Bishop and the accusations and attempts made on her daughter Mary. Born in a country where a woman might call her soul her own, and not be accused of witchcraft because she had certain marks on her body which every woman was not afflicted with, Briget fights her way through the terrors of a trial and an execution to preserve the reputation of her daughter and save her from a mad people who knew not what they...
...quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly irregular Tristram Shandy...
...Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can't Happen Here) wrote...
...from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter hours The Good Earth runs, Actress Rainer manages to make her every thought and action as clear as crystal. Silently she fosters Wang's yearning for more...