Word: simpering
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Implicit in the writing, acting and direction of Make Way for a Lady, a conviction that the picture is completely charming helps to obliterate any trace of charm which it might otherwise have possessed. Most tedious shot: Actress Shirley's simper...
Hardest working of Europe's great international bankers is spry, dynamic little Governor Vincenzo Azzolini of the Bank of Italy, who is always popping up unheralded to comb this or that Italian bank's books personally, while its officers simper and squirm. Last week Signor Azzolini made several most exalted persons squirm. After going over the quantities of gold wedding rings, gold cups and gold medals presented by Italians to their State to speed the war (TIME, Dec. 30), the Bank of Italy announced that the "gold" medal given to His Excellency Benito Mussolini by His Holiness Pope...
Hollywood has scaled Olympus, the impossible has been attained--gentlemen, for the first time in cinema history a child actor has appeared who is wholly natural, who does not simper, who is not affected, who is genuinely likeable, and who is really amusing. Journey to the Met this week, if examinations possibly permit, if only to revive a rapidly vanishing belief in miracles...
...males and it needs must be said that it succeeds in this if in nothing else. The picture has already been reviewed but for those latecomers who missed it, let it be said that it has Jimmy Cagney's stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance in settings and the aforementioned galaxy of stars, there should be no complaint with "Footlight Parade...
Charles Farrel and Janet Gaynor, the smile and simper team, have been recalled from a temporary limbo in order to be featured at the University in "The Man Who Came Back." Of course he had to go before he could return, so his rich, proud father had him shanghaied to Shanghai because he couldn't keep night clubs, blondes, and the bottle out of little Stevie's reach. Once there Stevie took a look at all that that quaint city had to offer in the way of gestures, and finally met up with his lost love who was occupying...