Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Square this time are pretty bad. We have plot G-63, served up with slight variations; plus comedy situation. Series X-12, in "Hands Across the Table," with Carole Lombard (who is getting old and looks it) and Fred Mac Murray, who is the one and only bright spot. Plot 48-R (the crusty old dame who turns out to have a heart of gold) bobs up again under the title "Three Kinds and a Queen," with May Robson. Neither picture is very good...
...with raftered ceilings and picturesque narrow stairs. One of the noblest mansions in all London is historic Londonderry House. There Mr. MacDonald, after he was considered by the Labor Party to have betrayed it and gone over to Pride & Privilege, found a new home so warm and bright with the glamor of Mayfair that the least he could do in return as Prime Minister, was to take Edith's husband into the Cabinet (TIME...
...rapidly accelerating movement which aims to breathe the spark of living production into the library-bound theatre of Henrik Ibsen made its first local manifestation last week when Eva Le Gallienne presented "Rosmersholm." Now the eminent Alla Nazimova has added the bright flame of her talent to this Ibsen revivification by offering "Ghosts" for a two weeks run at the Colonial Theatre. The fame of the work renders superfluous any detailed analysis of its individual characteristics. A more interesting question is that of Ibsen's place in the modern theatre as revealed in this excellent production...
Down to a perfect landing at Natal, Brazil one afternoon last week slid a tiny, single-motored De Haviland-Gypsy biplane. Out of 'it, her sharp little face bright with joy, jumped a slim, 25-year-old girl who had just become the first woman to make a solo flight across the South Atlantic.* Hustling off for a cup of tea she said: "I'll fly on to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow...
Last year one of the major surprises in the Pulitzer Prize announcements was the award of the poetry prize to Audrey Wurdemann, 24-year-old Seattle girl, for her second book. Bright Ambush. While most critics found Miss Wurdemann's verse promising and fluent, it was also characterized as conventional, frail, filled with echoes of stock poetic attitudes and phrases. Last week Miss Wurdemann's third book revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven...