Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conchita Supervia sang nicely last week, played castanets better than any of the current Carmens. But not even the big turtle could make her voice big enough to fill the Chicago Opera House or make her pretty gypsy-girl appear deeply, inevitably tragic...
Stiffly sitting around a white bed in a small sanatorium at Frankfurt-am-Main last week, a deposed king, a discarded queen, a prince & two princesses silently watched tragic death end the tragic life of their mother. As if two abdications, bitter hatred and widowhood had not brought her enough pain, Dowager ex-Queen Sophie of Greece, 61, died slowly, painfully of cancer. In Doom, Holland. ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, denied permission to visit her, coughed with bronchitis, shivered with fear that the disease which had taken first his father and now his sister might some day kill...
...year before he too was dethroned. The rest of her life, until a few months before she died, was spent in a villa in Florence with three of her children, Prince Paul and Princesses Irene and Catherine, while another daughter. Helen of Rumania, carried on her family's tragic tradition...
...news of the tragic death of Eugene Glover in a cancer research laboratory comes as a distinct shock to those of his classmates and contemporaries in college who knew him. The pity of it is that there were so few who really did know him. Glover was one of that considerable group in every class that "live at home". Most of his classmates probably knew him only as a name, for he received A's in all his courses and his name always appeared in the First Group of the Rank List. Those who did seek him out found...
Great actresses, almost by definition, appear in vehicles which are focused on glamour rather than on truth. Mata Hari, brilliantly acted and directed, is no exception. Garbo. in the opinion of her admirers, is the Hollywood Duse, not far inferior to the tragic Eleonora. In this picture her Swedish voice, her awning lashes, her curt gestures are somehow becoming to the abridged and euphemistic story of a Javanese dancer whose real name, according to the best authorities, was Margaret Zelle MacLeod. Good shot: two lighted cigarets in a pitch black room, where Garbo and Novarro are talking...