Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good-by to her under the impression that her prison is a hospital and that she is leaving him to undergo a minor operation. To reveal its tragic conclusion in no way impairs the effectiveness of this sombre and spectacular fiction. Greta Garbo is to many the supreme tragedienne of the cinema and the picture is a darkly theatrical hyperbole, intent on glorification rather than illusion...
...from the sort of thing one has grown to expect of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Mrs. Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London, Actor Bruce first charmed U. S. audiences this...
There is perhaps not recorded a more mildly poignant life pattern than that of Charles Lamb, who, himself not precisely a tower of strength, had yet to bear the burden of his own peccadillos with the tragic fact of his adored sister. While unfolding the subdued drama of this luckless pair the authoress availed herself of the abundant material for the creation of a literary atmosphere, and for the most part achieved a satisfying degree of success, leaving only to be desired a more penetrating (although not lengthier) portrayal of S. T. Coleridge, or at least an intimation...
...life. In presence of mind and courage she was the female counterpart of President Roosevelt, and her strength of spirit was most evident when she was an invalid in the latter years of her life while producing her authoritative work on Keats. These years were very tragic for her but she made the best of them. Her influence as a critic should not be overlooked, he added...
...skirt-lengths had its beginning, middle and end in the last decade, says Author Allen. Advertising changed its key. "In 1919 the Listerine advertisement said simply: 'The prompt application of Listerine may prevent a minor accident from becoming a major infection,' whereas in 1929 it began a tragic rhapsody with the words, 'Spring! for everyone...