Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interrupts his actors or leaves his chair to show them what to do. His sedentary technique must have been particularly practical for Waterloo Bridge since he had an expert cast whose major deficiency is no more im portant than a heterogeny of accents and, in one scene, the gingerly demeanor toward tennis rackets that is universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real but funny. Mae Clarke as the girl gives the best performance...
...Street. Now his organization has offices in every important trade center. He was responsible for important financing: the towering Bank of Manhattan Co. Building; Allerton Corporation (residential hotels for unattached ladies and gentlemen); and, biggest and most important, Tri-Utilities. With a strong face, a bold eye, an athletic demeanor (golf, horseback), young Banker Ohrstrom became a popular topic among Wall Street journalists and conversationalists. They talked, rather to his embarrassment, of his brilliance and his youth...
Also the Devil gets the Wayward Girl. She comes toward Heaven drinking out of the bottle he has given her, very gay in her demeanor. When she gets to Heaven, they turn her out. She whispers "Too late!" and goes down to the Devil. He also gets the Hypocrite, a housewife who follows Satan and wears his flowers while singing "I'm on My Way to Heaven." The Devil keeps her dancing. Finally, the Pilgrim of Determination marches past the Devil, singing "I'm Going Through." When she reaches the throne, the Negro audiences at Heaven Bound shout...
...which Peggy (Lois Wilson), when her children have gone away to school, consoles herself with a plateful of cinnamon buns -make Seed at times a convincing as well as mildly entertaining homily. John Boles, whose previous roles have included opportunities for barytone singing, maintains a placid demeanor as Bart Carter. Genevieve Tobin, who has become recognized as the most civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive...
...President Lowell thinks he wasn't recognized. That may be so. Still, they couldn't have thought he was Butch Mc-Guiness, the hammer thrower. At least the students knew that here was an old gentleman of academic demeanor who would have nothing worthwhile to contribute if the talk veered around to the relative merits of Camera and Jack Shar- key. If A. Lawrence Lowell wants to know what students talk about he'd better send a dictaphone next time and stay away.. . . He might even hear something about A. Lawrence Lowell...