Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They drove up a back street to a little fifth-rate hotel, got him a shabby room. Ignorant of what it was all about Insull raged and despaired. He sat down on his bed. "I am all alone," he said. "I am a victim of fate." He began to weep...
Thirteen years ago If Winter Comes (by Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson- not to be confused with Ray Coryton Hutchinson-made many a reader weep. The Unforgotten Prisoner should do likewise, but the tears will be of a better quality. Author Hutchinson has turned the difficult trick of writing a realistic modern romance, a contemporary story of strong but unmawkish sentiment, a poignantly sympathetic study of English and German victims of a war that did not make democracy safe...
...takes money from unsuspecting fools in the game of Ace, King, Queen. His name is Mace, and he falls in love with a girl who has been filched of all her money by his partner in crime. The girl is Sylvia Sidney, and you are mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress as can be found in Hollywood today. One may object to her sensual lips (which...
Mary of Scotland (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by the Theatre Guild). Nearly 400 years after her birth, any new play or book about Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, is news in the hope that it may explain why Mary is still potent to make historians and poets weep. She was Queen of Scotland a few days after birth, Queen of France at 18, true Queen of England according to Catholic Europe. She was tall, slim, dark, with an oval, plump-cheeked face like Film Actress Diana Wynyard's. She had beauty, brains, charm that she never turned...
...screams Ruth Chatterton in a moment of high mechanical emotion; but alas, she does go on, and on, and on, until the audience of "Female," current epic at the Metropolitan, is ready to weep with sympathy for the poor girl so driven by the desperate struggle for cakes and caviar. The case of Ruth Chatterton should be taken up by a Society for the Prevention of. If she could act, she might be a beautiful actress, if she were beautiful. About all that can be said for her is summarized in the title of the movie...