Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second breath but the reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched her horses and dragged her carriage through the streets. It takes the competition of a Spanish singer and a paralytic stroke to bring home the crushing truth: that she must henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed is the impersonation which Edith Evans (last seen in The Lady with a Lamp) brings to the part of Irela, a character in which cruelty, vanity and tenderness fight...
...scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity. The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in. Unlike Lee Tracy's somewhat similar picture, The Half Naked Truth, Hard to Handle depends less upon journalistic exaggerations about an exciting profession than upon the personality of its principal. Cagney, talking and galloping a little faster than usual, is still wholly successful in the character part which he discovered and which, with eloquent repetition, he has made peculiarly his own. Good...
...very cabaret where Irene Dunne, now a dignified harridan, is acting as mistress of ceremonies. She is able to take the blame when he murders the father of a girl he is trying to seduce. Most inevitable shot: the son (Douglas Walton) denouncing his grandfather in court, where the truth comes...
...gravity--in their case the attraction of an overpowering city. Thus Yale, although in Connecticut, tends more and more toward New York, as Princeton does, while Harvard in Massachusetts and Dartmouth in New Hampshire are both in the influence of Boston. This sounds far-fetched, but there is truth in it. Harvard and Dartmouth are distinctly New England universities. Yale is ceasing to be one, and Princeton, of course, never drew any considerable fraction of its students from north of New York. While Yale has probably regarded its contests with Harvard as the most important on its schedules, there...
...sense of humor, was Lloyd George's "schoolboy ambassador" to Lenin and Trotsky when their government was young. Women and Bolsheviks were his weakness. He relates in "British Agent" his narrow escapes from both with such frankness that one feels throughout the book the added thrill of truth...