Word: warmheartedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Lucasta (Security Pictures; Columbia) suffers from a piece of inspired miscasting. Originally written by Philip Yordan as the story of a Pennsylvania Polish family, the play became a resounding Broadway hit five years ago after it had been adapted for an all-Negro cast by Producer Harry Wagstaff Gribble...
Most of the masters of silent comedy -Chaplin, Langdon and Keaton-were clowns in the Continental tradition. Lloyd, a collateral descendant of Horatio Alger heroes, is the clown of the U.S. middle class. His pictures are warmhearted parodies of old-fashioned American manners & morals.
"I love America and Americans, and anyone who does not like them or appreciate their character is henceforth my enemy," announced British Poet-Novelist Sir Osbert Sitwell, back in England after a lecture visit to the U.S. He had found the American people warmhearted, aware of their responsibilities and impatient...
A Decent Character. His father was a bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment...
The Woman Who Talks to Stalin. Now she is fat and ugly; but once she was slim and (her friends remember) beautiful. Once she was warmhearted, shy and full of pity for the oppressed, of whom she was one. Now she is cold as the frozen Danube, bold as a...