Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful to change the date of the action from 1905 to 1885, when the real Prince was a young boy. Although they may disappoint Danilo, these alterations do not spoil the enjoyment of untitled cinemaddicts. Any picture which constitutes a field day for such specialists as Art Director Cedric Gibbons, Dance Director Albertina Rasch, Costumer Adrian, contains stars like MacDonald and Chevalier, and costs $1,600,000 is likely to suffer from a sense of selfimportance. In The Merry Widow...
...future challenges maybe doubtful. The rigid attention to rules and the disallowing of the protest because the flag was not raised "soon enough," may seen machiavellian to some, but to many it will seem, while regrettable, a reason for relaxation of the rules of yachting, not enough to spoil "the sport of kings," but merely so as to relax such minor and apparently troublesome points...
...reason that many people went to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria this year was to watch the excitement that would occur if the Festival had to be called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth Festival was no great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last...
...civilization, and we all check our six-guns at the door with the hat girl when we go into a public place, and we have the Indians pretty well in hand now? but we do not like this condition to be generally known back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists used in a lumber camp brawl out here. And it begins to look...
...Menjou), unduly proud of his ability, boasts that he could not play badly if he tried. He marries an actress (Elissa Landi), is jealous of her, sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi both act brave lies, the worst...