Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, famed British oldtimer. Now 65, she takes the part of a stern aunt. Most expected shot: Holmes beating up his rival...
Simon Lemon, Irwin Apple. The real difference between the Simon Report and the Irwin Plan, the only factor which suggested that progress toward India's aspirations may be made at the conference, was a matter of tone. Great and broad-visioned lawyer though he is, Sir John Simon infuriated Indians by three sour bits of priggery...
Exactly opposite is the tone of the Irwin Plan. The viceroy, a kindly Englishman, gives reign to his emotions, urges that "we spare no efforts and even take some risks," admits that "it would be a grave mistake to underestimate [the] force or depreciate [the] value" of St. Gandhi's movement, concludes, "[I] have endeavored to point the way to ... place upon the constitution the first definite impress of Dominion status...
...Church's goal would be "the establishment of the Kingdom of God in all the Earth." It would shun "all political alliances and entanglements and other associations that would tend to lower its spiritual tone and to subtract from its spiritual power...
...fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted to the Theatre Guild. Mr. Tone meets Lenore Ulric, a hijacker's property, and they struggle through a jerky love affair. Occasional advice is given by a worldly doctor, Leo Donelly, who even goes so far as to prescribe Miss Ulric...