Word: likely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next night through the false front of tall white columns erected to make Atlanta's Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for three years as G With the W. They were conscious of participating in a national event, of seeing a picture it had taken three yea~s to make from a novel it had taken seven years to write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius...
...Their love," says a friend, "is the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...
...them. Legend No. i was the only great U. S. war epic-the War between the States-told from the Southern side. Legend No. 2 was the heroic and unhappy love story of two people who were strong, brutal, brash, realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. i. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind...
...with grippe: "There were fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like many another headache, he was worth the price...
...year, with 97,850 circulation, it had passed the Constitution (91,007), was Atlanta's biggest newspaper. It ranked third in the South, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal (124,010) and the New Orleans Times-Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes in A-Blowin...