Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Eugene Forde and in an excellent sequence she is shown fighting her way through a terror-stricken mob during an air-raid. Perhaps the most enjoyable scene, however, is that in which she renders a blues song in a languid, husky monotone, and then proceeds to "bury the torch" in the approved Kay Thompson manner. The song is mediocre, but Miss Del Rio makes the very most of it, and the same may be said for the picture as a whole...
...Prohibition era, sad-eyed, quail-like Helen Morgan, with he. tousled black hair, piano-sitting technique and a voice like a pent-up sob, was the best known torch singer of them all. In the sweeping Americana of Edna Ferber's Showboat she was the modern note. Her House of Morgan was the nattiest in Manhattan's satiny nightclub belt. Last week in Philadelphia, plumper, still tousled, sad-eyed and sobby-voiced, Helen Morgan sang in three-a-day variety at cheap Fay's Theatre on Market Street. The matinee audience was unenthusiatic. "I got the bird...
...foot of the Capitoline. Their country house in Tuscany is the Villa Reala de Marlia, world-famed for its hedge carvings. In Paris they entertain with suitable splendor at the 18th-Century Hotel de Ligne. In the U. S. the Countess' mission is that of a torch bearer for Italian...
...since its unification in 1870 Germany has been the most dynamic power on the Continent, pushing on every side to get outlets for the energy and ability of her people. This outward push was checked for a while by the Great War, but Hitler has picked up the old torch and put the question squarely to the statesmen of Europe, can Germany expand without another war? This problem overshadows every other one, and with China and Spain for the minute shelved, to this problem European diplomacy will devote itself during the winter...
...52nd Street, the picture focuses on an upper-crusty family (Ian Hunter, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts), follows them through 25 years of fussing against change, winds up by converting them all to the new state of things. To make the rapprochement complete, fluttery maiden Sister Zasu sings tintype torch songs in a nightclub floor show, treads lively measures with Hollywood's Sid Silvers, 52nd Street's Jack White...