Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood's brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Jean Muir and Edward Arnold were debating something really big-a strike of the Guild which would shut every film studio down tight. While a committee headed by President Robert Montgomery negotiated the Guild's demands with representatives of producers, a hundred or more stars gathered nightly...
Every night producers and Guild officers talked until 2 or 3 a. m. While her husband, Franchot Tone, backed up President Montgomery with telling arguments, Second Vice President Joan Crawford knitted away like a Madam Defarge, occasionally stiffening the men's backbones with her cry: "We strike!" Meantime the Guild's senior members were being polled, voting overwhelmingly for a strike if negotiations broke down. In prospect was the extraordinary spectacle of the cinema's top celebrities marching in picket lines outside studios and theatres. Stuntmen and cowboy actors prepared to organize a troop of 300 horsemen...
...subdued tone of the piece in general allows attention to be turned to the specialized talents of Dorothy Stone and Roscoe Ates. Charles Collins also rates large type in all the announcements, but he is clearly outdone by the other two leads. Miss Stone probably owes some of her success to her place in the stepping family, but her singing and dancing are above average, and she has a determination to be good that comes out as a constant flow of energy and vivacity. Roscoe Ates, by matching his manner to his imbecilic look, pounds away with a good brand...
When kind Son Edwin died in 1904, his son Walter headed the Sun's publishing company at 32. In 1908 and 1909 the directors, who solemnly decided even the mechanical minutiae of the paper, agreed to admit display type and half-tone cuts to the advertising columns. In 1910, the Evening Sun was born...
...audiences, long accustomed to enduring without means of retaliation her displays of smug feminine understanding, may derive sneaking, sadistic satisfaction from the fate that overtakes Ann Harding in this picture. Otherwise its excellence is impaired when, in an attempt to achieve a horrifying contrast with the subdued tone of earlier sequences, Director Frank Lee permits his cast to overact the climax with some of the wildest grimacing witnessed since the screen became articulate. Good shot: Gerald excusing himself in a Paris cabaret to pick out his favorite brandy, in the cellar...