Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central roles Dennis King and Edith Barrett achieve performances of truly outstanding skill. Mr. King leads a romantically vital touch to his Parnell which makes the utter devotion of Mrs. O'Shea and the Irish Party thoroughly credible. Miss Barrett has a most appealing presence and performs with a sympathetic restraint which quite overbalance her slightly Philadelphia acoant...
...until it sets a high mark in race course architecture for spaciousness, charm and luxury. The new clubhouse itself has no equal even among the great New York hotels in point of originality, furnishings and decorations. Col. Winn himself outlined and designed the lounge room. Modernistic to the last touch, it is a triumph of the decorator...
...Jailed in Chicago on charges of conspiracy to violate a Federal game law, they faced possible sentences of $10,000 fine, two years' imprisonment. After a silence of more than three months Biological Survey agents, who had arranged with the U. S. District Attorney to be kept in touch with the case, went to that official, asked about its progress. They were told that the Walleys had walked into Federal Court fortnight before, pleaded guilty, been dismissed on payment of $25 fines. Investigation by furious game protectors disclosed that the Walleys were members of an old Mississippi family...
...Robert Young) whom they intend to swindle. When the young couple marry they are disinherited, undergo progressive misfortunes until they end up in a Pennsylvania barn. The crooks pull a robbery for which Young goes to jail. Not until the end of the film does the dreamy Runyon touch appear. On Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens to be an ex-doctor (Raymond Walburn), delivers the young wife of a baby while the hard-boiled member of the gang (Bruce Cabot) meltingly gives up the stolen bonds to get her husband...
...listens to a recording or reads Braille, the blind person must confine himself to those books which have been selected for him. Last week at Northwestern University a young graduate student in psychology named Emil Ranseen demonstrated an invention by which a sightless reader patient enough to learn a touch code may read any book he chooses. After it is adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes...