Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strange Interlude (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Eugene O'Neill's cinematized nine-act play of soul-sucking Nina Leeds drew a record crowd at its Hollywood opening. Translated and truncated to cinema form, it retold capably the story of the woman who needed three men to satisfy her comprehensive fixation on her father. The play's famed soliloquies indicating the thoughts of the characters are retained. As in the play they are of three kinds: 1) to show the secret mind of the speaker; 2) to comment on the dialog; 3) to tell the audience what has happened...
...somewhere in the background by New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning. Midway between was Dr. William Norman Guthrie, tall, handsome, voluble rector of St. Mark's, who ten years ago founded with Dr. Cowles at St. Mark's a non-sectarian "Body & Soul Medical & Mental Clinic...
Last June the Body & Soul Clinic, declaring that it had thus far treated more than 400,000 ailing New Yorkers, held a tenth anniversary celebration in Town Hall. Greetings were received from friends and directors, including Father-in-law McAdoo, Lawyers Samuel Untermyer and George Gordon Battle, Episcopal Church Historian E. Clowes Chorley, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of The Churchman. Former patients appeared to tell of their cures, which each called "a modern miracle." The Town Hall meeting was startled when Lawyer Dudley Field Malone arose and shouted that Bishop Manning was "plotting" to remove the Body & Soul Clinic from...
...haired, blue eyed Methodist who plays politics like a professional. Dr. Colvin warmed up for the convention by addressing a Dry mass meeting. Said he: "The Republican wet plank means that Mr. Hoover is the most conspicuous turncoat since Benedict Arnold. ... It means a hard struggle to save the soul of America...
...Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress Olga Baclanova, began to dwindle. He began to brood, long and darkly. Last June he gave a recital...