Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile's ears burn. When the recording was issued in Germany this summer, German Wagnerphiles' ears burned in vain for the parts recorded in pre-Anschluss Austria. They found they had to take their Walküre without their Sieglinde. Luckier U. S. Wagnerphiles, listening to the complete version, will find Sieglinde's warbling to be a cut above the record's remaining average...
Mark my vote for continuing the "Current & Choice" item in your Cinema Department. Reference to this feature has saved me many a time from the 20th Century form of Spanish Inquisition known as sitting four hours in a theatre in vain expectation of entertainment...
Result of this story was to get Joe Graham fired. Other newspapermen, almost as indignant as Joe, got him a publicity job with a small county fair near Cleveland. Last week Joe Graham paid City Hall a return visit, searched in vain for Reporter Griffin, curled up on his favorite bench and went to sleep again...
...like a picture as much like Algiers as possible, let the camera eye ogle Lamarr's uncanny physical charms, duplicated Producer Wanger's feat of making the Lamarr torpidity seem exotic. Somewhat bowled over himself, Producer Zimbalist observed: "Hedy is just a nice girl, not at all vain, and a hard worker. She has a natural allure. ... If anything, we've attempted to tone down the sex appeal she exudes. . . . All through the picture she is covered from head...
Last year Philadelphia's pink and twinkly Music Publisher James Francis Cooke, whose Oliver Ditson Music Co. had turned many a penny publishing Songwriter Bland's bestseller, began to wonder who James A. Bland really was. In vain he consulted the heftiest musical encyclopedias. Even Ditson's oldest officials had no recollection of any James A. Bland...