Word: pleasantness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...falters in the finale when he gets his first real chance. Richard Hale plays the bad man with extreme unction. There is a chorus that hums throughout the cornfields and cheers the cowboys at their crap game. They are hard to explain, but they sing well enough and are pleasant to watch when the interest sags...
...completed picture is not pleasant. The average standard of living in Russia is unbelievably low. Peasant squalor exists around half-destroyed churches containing the art of eight centuries. Loud speakers bleat communist propaganda into stond uncomprehending faces. On the whole, however, life is livable and looks to the future. "Black Bread and Red Coffins" brings a shadowy nation into clear relief. In the prison, in the courtroom, in the Bureau of Marriage and Divorce, and in the village world, representative personalities are etched in living and human detail...
...last week were planning or embarking on new expeditions. Some tales and plans: Antarctic Cruise. Five months ago, owners of the Stella Polaris, a sturdy 6,000-ton steamer, announced in London that Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse would take a group of tourists to Antarctica. Last fortnight, a pleasant-faced woman engaged passage for the cruise. She was Emily Dorman Lady Shackleton, the lady whom the late gallant Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind him for the third and last time, when he embarked on the Antarctic trip that killed him nine years ago. She wanted to see the white...
Plays that are built for actors are only as pleasant as the actors themselves. At Keith's this week "Sin Takes A Holiday" with Constance Bennett is very pleasant indeed. The story isn't much and the supporting cast has little to do, but Miss Bennett is enough for one movie...
...make it pleasant in Japan...