Word: cooperativeness
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Behind her rigging and wigging, Princess Kukachin is blonde, wide-mouthed Norwegian Sigrid Gurie, engaged by Producer Goldwyn with elaborate secrecy. Cinemaudiences may recognize her as the girl Gary Cooper taught to kiss in one four-minute cinema lesson, a sequence to go down in cinema history with the Garbo-Gilbert pacesetter (Flesh and the Devil) and the May Irwin-John C. Rice long count...
...grotesquely cast Marco Polo skips like a cockleshell over the surface of Marco's famed Munchausenish travel tale, comes at length to a cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than he could count. Producer...
Died. Dexter Parshall Cooper, 57, hydraulic engineer who in 1919 conceived a plan for harnessing the tide which piles from the Bay of Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...
...seldom is any paper so unfortunate as was the exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed Army engineer Lieut. Colonel Philip...
...pretentious crop, it found unpretentious Night Must Fall the best. Of 20 films mentioned, ten were foreign-made. Leading the performers was French Harry Bauer, in the Prague-made The Golem; high up was Soviet Nikolai Cherkassov (Baltic Deputy). Hollywood's 14-year-old Jackie Cooper made the list; the industry's 1937 darling, Mr. Paul Muni...