Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Warner). A new picture starring Al Jolsonlis known beforehand to be little save a skeletal frame upon which he may hang gags ancient and new, plug sentimental ballads, caper through dance steps and behave in the approved Jolson manner. Big Boy is a cinemized version of the musicomedy of the same name in which he appeared for the Shuberts five years ago, a hackneyed, outlandish tale of a proud Southern family staking all on the Kentucky Derby, blackmailers, a forged check, an errant son, a happy musicomedy ending. Big Boy is the horse on which Jolson as Gus, the maligned...
...Glory of the Nightingales is written in a quiet blank verse. As befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...
...harmony both with the spiritual and physical development of the Harvard University of the third decade in the twentieth century, the latest addition to the University's scientific buildings, the School of Geography, will be a separate and integral laboratory devoted to science and built in the Georgian manner...
...made some time ago, before Oakie had officially become a star; for some reason its release was delayed. Typical shots: moving men in a girl's apartment; passengers on a steamer throwing each other's hats overboard; hula hula girls on the desert island talking in the manner of East Manhattan...
Thick-legged and firmly fleshed over her solid muscles, ebulliently British in manner, conveying an impression of good nature by her obvious healthfulness and a smile far better dentifriced than most English girls', Betty Nuthall was the tournament's only box-office attraction. At the West Side Tennis Club she confounded people who had heard of her as a girl who combined tournament tennis with late dancing. She did not smoke or drink, went to bed nightly at 9:45, declared that she likes to make her own tennis dresses and that she had embroidered the Union Jack and Lion...