Word: heroical
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...away one morning to the cosy town where, gnawed by pangs of remorse, she poisoned herself and died. After a high-powered conference of police, priests and others who had Geisha interests at heart, the strike was settled with recognition of the Geisha Guild, topped off with nights of heroic celebration in Osaka this week...
Head Over Heels in Love (Gaumont-British) represents a heroic attempt on the part of England's major cinema company to get out a genuine U. S.-type musical comedy without infringing upon strict British cinema-quota laws. For industry and ambition, the effort deserves top marks. The producers not only imported Hollywood Scenarist Dwight Taylor, U. S. Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed...
...Bufano. "Good old Benny!" they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
Last week Gauguin's youngest son Pola gave a more authoritative and respectable version of his lone-wolf father's career. His narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin...
...this case Beverly Roberts departs from her customary Junior League Portrayals' and becomes the heroic young miss who runs a logging outfit somewhere up in "God's Country." George Brent, as the man in question, not only brings out the eternal feminine in her but frustrates her competitor when he tries to block up the river. The fact that the competitor is Mr. Brent's brother only makes his sacrifice for the woman he loves all the more noble...