Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love, music, humor, and spectacle have been carefully moulded together by Director Henry King in the making of "In Old Chicago," and the result, now showing in Boston at the Colonial Theatre, is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining motion picture. Starring the delectable Alice Faye, it is an interesting portrayal of Chicago in the seventies, and the climax--the great fire of 1871--is a worthy addition to the recent series of Hollywood excursions into the realm of spectacular catastrophe...
...Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations of previous Hitchcock films, but is, nevertheless, a fair sample of Hitchcock devices...
...other end of the parkway from the museum, the academy last week remained equally remote from the attentions of Dr. Barnes and the Artists' Union. First visitors to the exhibition, however, thought that past criticisms from both sources had perhaps stimulated the academy's most vivid and inclusive show in years...
...Dyck type of head, with high forhead, strong chin and a glance of intense alertness. What is most remarkable is the vivid sense of life. This is created largely by an emphasis on the personal incidentals, the pupil of the eye, the crowsfeet and wrinkles, the wart on the cheek...
...correspondents, on the Italian campaign in Ethiopia and the siege of Madrid. The eleven chapters on Ethiopia make the Italian advance more of a pushover than U. S. readers would have guessed; the twelve Spanish chapters, written from the Loyalist side, give a confused account of political developments, a vivid description of the battle of Brihuega, which Matthews considers one of the most decisive in history...