Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Setting was simple; the solemnly stalking constables and the noblemen of Messina appeared before the same Palladian arch, altered to suit the needs of the scene; but the bright costumes of the players varied to fit the varied brilliance of the speech and the acting...
...undeniable that the acting of Mr. Hampden did fit into the spirit in which the play was written. He made the most of his dramatic moments and brought each act up to a startling close. As the keen witted Cardinal Richelieu he brought out both the clever perception of the master plotter and at the same time he added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion...
...York's Wet Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia asked Mr. Ford to fit together two statements. Ford statement No. 1 (in the September Pictorial Review) : "If booze ever comes back to the U. S., I am through with manufacturing. I would not be bothered with the problem of handling over 200,000 men and trying to pay them wages which the saloons would take away from them." Ford statement No. 2 (in the September Forbes Magazine) : "The tractors have already begun to come from Ireland and they are better than we have made here...
...other members of the cast are not so good. Vera Allen as Lady Anne did well in an exceedingly difficult part, but most of the others were nothing more than satisfactory. In spite of the exceptional amount of cutting in her part that was necessary to make the play fit into the modern stage time limits, she was able to convey something of an actual character to the part she played. She was won over by Richard not so much by her lack of insight, as by his extreme cleverness. She left the impression that she was a woman...
...only acts superbly, but acquires a realistic German accent, and even goes so far as to improve in her knowledge of English as the picture progresses. Miss Chatterton has the role of a young German girl who, as a vaudeville actress, marries her worthless partner. In a fit of anger, he runs off with their baby son. The picture traces Sarah's rise from vaudeville to grand opera, as a sort of sub-plot to her struggles to regain her boy from the family in whose custody her husband had left it. There is a minor love-story which does...