Word: tranquil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Taylor's strong, dark features grin with all the sardonic glee of the cynical, hard-drinking, good-for-nothing; but later he is equally adept at registering first, tearing remorse and shame, and then calm and steadfast determination. And Irens Dunne, as his tranquil victim and ideal, gives us every nuage of her changing feeling toward him, and despond and exults to perfection. The others of the cast are fully as good as their names propels: Charles Butter worth, Betty Furness, Ralph Morga, Sara Haden, Albert Emery, Henry Armelia, and Arthur Treacher. The tenth "march of Time" vital...
...made up of two souls: "Yang" a "good soul"; "Vin" the soul of darkness and evil. No harm comes to a good man; that's the way the universe is constituted. With this belief and the worship for the dead the Chinese manage to live a life tranquil and indifferent to the "ways of the world". Strength of character more than strength of mind; knowledge is important as it affects the character of the knower. And that pithy bit, gentle readers, delights the Vagabond...
...first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both débuts scored tranquil, unostentatious successes...
...being that of captain & cook. Molly is cooking for Jotham Klore, a profane, hard-drinking bully boy who seldom passes a lock without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...
...ambitions for the man she loves. One sister (Estelle Wynwood) foregoes an unseemly dalliance, returns to the old romance that time has almost staled. The other sister (Viola Roache) finds it easier to accept the un eventful round of housewifely existence In the end Dame Sybil prefers her own tranquil solitude to another marriage...