Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 33; from Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 34; at last, after the judge had refused to grant a "proxy" divorce, required Mrs. Tone's appearance "in person"; in Los Angeles...
...phrasing, the secret of Louis' greatness. Father Hines learned some of it from him and started the "trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons are his magnificently emotional tone and his ability to phrase so simply and sincerely that the notes take on meaning and life. They cease to be mere technical cadenzas or glissandos and become a pattern that conveys an idea. It is for developing this idea of emotional simplicity, of taste in playing, and of making...
...remote mountain in Europe as war breaks out all around them. There is the villainous munitions manufacturer and his actress mistress, formerly a vaudeville performer in America and now posing as a Russian Countess. Clark Gable represents the cabbages as Harry Van, hoofer and friend of the Countess. The tone of Sherwood's play has been lowered to suit the taste of the multitude, and a happy ending weakens the plot. But this is one the whole a superior picture...
...said, "Try not to get it all over everything." > Encouragement is more effective than disapproval. When a teacher said "You can do it," children were more persistent and successful than when she asked "Is it too hard for you?" When she said "You can do it" in a sarcastic tone, they were discouraged...
...their "proxy" divorce hearing in Los Angeles, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone met at Manhattan's swank "21," embraced tearfully, dined together, later danced fervidly together at a night club. Next morning Judge Benjamin Scheinman denied Actress Crawford's deposition charging Husband Tone with "extreme cruelty." Said the judge: "The courts in this State look with disfavor on mail-order divorces...