Word: wistfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The motley parade of Greeks and Elizabethans through Hollywood settings is odd, but no more odd than the whole conception of the film. What was an airy, dignified, wistful vision has been degraded beyond all measure. As an example of the Hollywood-Oriental influence on the English theatre it is...
Acting upon an impulse which I imagined was largely a result of the particular mood I was in that day, I clipped from an insurance advertisement occupying p. 3 of your Sept. 16 issue, over a legend which ran in part "Motherless All Day. . ." the well-snapped picture of a...
In Cleveland Artur Rodzinski thrust his baton into the air last week, scurried through the sparkling overture to Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and the curtain was up on a performance made memorable by Soprano Lotte Lehmann as the wistful, aging Princess.
Lawyer Neylan has won William Randolph Hearst's confidence more completely than anyone ever has 'before. To him the 71 -year-old publisher is a "great American," a real Progressive, an unappreciated genius, a master of English prose, an extravagant, wilful client. But Lawyer Neylan's intense...
Friends of the President were considerably relieved to learn that the gold-colored bells would not din a wistful message to presidential ears. Mr. Coolidge, however, was reported disconsolate that he was unable to grant the President's wish.