Word: laboredness
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The transition to tragedy and parlor problems burdens the film with more labored histrionics than an oldtime melodrama. As the second U. S. screen appearance of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (Intermezzo) and the first for Warner Baxter in more than a year, it gives neither a chance to show more...
Two weeks before, Knudsenhillman, OPM's doubleheaded boss, had tried and signally failed to untangle the Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, March 3). Knudsenhillman took another deep breath, summoned Bethlehem spokesmen and union heads to Washington. While striking workers fought with Buffalo police, William Knudsen and Sidney Hillman labored for...
Short, jut-jawed, gimlet-eyed, Professor Berdan always marches into class with a huge armful of books. Flinging them down, he scrawls an almost unintelligible message on the blackboard (e.g., "Vivify by range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students...
After the visitors had gone he sat there with his eyes closed, his breathing growing more labored. With him was the Queen from whom he had been estranged since 1934 ("The King tires of everything; some day he will tire of me," she had said). Near her sat the two...
Virginia (Paramount). Produced by Virginia-born Director Edward H. Griffith,* from a story he wrote with Virginia Van Upp, Virginia was filmed on the spot, in torrid, somnolent Albemarle County, where Thomas Jefferson lived and died. In spite of the labored accents of its non-Confederate cast (only Southern actor...