Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Charles Boyer's confident, romantic, tragic Pepe le Moko, and Joseph Spurin-Calleia's unhurried, calculating Slimane are cinememorable. So are Director John Cromwell's handling of this strangely fraternal, chaseless man hunt, and such intense scenes as that in which an informer (Gene Lockhart), backing away in terror as his executioners advance, jars a mechanical piano into action, dies to a ragtime tune. But best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage...
Considered the money-dispensing leader of Arab terrorists, Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remained in exile in nearby French-mandated Lebanon. But in London the much respected Times blared forth against him: "It is impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...
Last week in London memories of that period were powerfully stirred by an exhibition of 20th Century German Art held at the New Burlington Galleries. Most of the recollections were melancholy. For at the gallery was plain evidence that modern German art has traced a more tragic course than that of any other European country. Still living in Berlin slums. Käthe Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned...
...what New York tabloids like to think is a close parallel to l'affaire Simpson, the picture retells the tragic story of Archduke Rudolph, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, who gave up position, property, and finally life itself, for the woman he loved. Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux are no strangers to American audiences, but under the skillful direction of a compatriot. Anatole Litvac, and unhampered by a plot that demands love, spectacle, and a happy ending, they give to their roles a depth of emotional feeling rarely seen on American screens. For those who have not already seen...
When 18-year-old Charlotte Matthiesen told her 16-year-old sweetheart, Donald Carroll, that she was pregnant, they went to a cinema to talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost...