Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mechanical efficiency of the cinema industry, abroad as well as in the U. S., there are unhappy penalties. One is a reluctance to experiment. Author Leo Lapaire, after trying in vain to interest continental producers in his story, wrote the screen play himself, got Composer Anton Profes to write a brilliant score, organized his own company, paid his highly efficient actors with rights to share in the picture's profits. The Eternal Mask won a prize, for "originality of theme," at last summer's Venice Exposition. Last week, released in the U. S. with English subtitles...
...waking moments he ably seconded Clavers in his police duties, wooed Margaret, Jean's protegee. Margaret liked Alastair but could not do better than that: seeing her father murdered had been a shock that left her pathologically virginal. Clavers married his Jean but Alastair pined in vain for Margaret...
...Sitting quietly at his maple desk, the Vagabond's thoughts wander into devious channels, and his pen following his mind as a child imitates its seniors--traces an incongruous line of thought, erratic but mild. Today he loiters before the haberdasheries of Harvard Square, gazing in vain at windows filled with things he wished his friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which...
Against such reasoning Lawyer Davis argued in vain that "the fact that a corporation does not make a profit does not mean that it cannot be damaged," and pointed out ineffectually that A. P.'s members "are its customers, and there would be no point in collecting profits from them in order to return the profits as dividends." The Court's action left still unsettled by the highest court in the country, how long broadcasting stations must wait before they can legitimately appropriate "news'" published by newspapers...
...peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels, but her death leaves him friendless and penniless. Even in his last year the painter gets...