Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this time is an arty and lovelorn lady named Sally Wyndham who after a tragic love affair gives up her baby, goes to Italy as an interior decorator's agent to forget. There she packs up the Renaissance chapel of the Carnini family for a U. S. client, turns homeward, followed by Count Mario Carnini (Tullio Carminati). In a Paris hotel she accidentally stumbles...
...Dartmouth, Carnival at Hanover, February 9 and 10; the Middlebury Carnival, February 12 and 13; the Harvard ski meet, an intramural affair on Mt. Washington, February 25; the Gunstock Race of the White Mountain Ski Runners on Mt. Belknap, March 4; the Eastern Downhill Race in the Taft Trail, Mt. Cannon, March 18; the Nanson Race on Mt. Washington, March 25; and the newly organized Harvard, Dartmouth Meet which this year is to be held in Tuckerman Ravine, Mt. Washington, April...
...Lake (by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald; produced by Jed Harris). In this sincere, intelligent but somewhat rambling play, there are two powerful scenes. One occurs when Stella Surrege (Katharine Hepburn), who has broken off a sticky love affair with a horsey neighbor (Geoffrey Wardwell) to marry a kindly, understanding War veteran with ?15,000 a year, discovers that she loves her new husband John Clayne . (Colin Clive). It is an hour after their wedding, on a rainy September afternoon. Stella and John are standing under a leaky marquee. Laughing together, they get into their car to go away...
...Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have reached the Vive la France! stage the mob has grown to such threatening proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that he is a spy. Soon the affaire Jones becomes the question of the day. Governments rise and fall on the issue. It looks bad for Jones. In melodramatic fashion he is spirited away from the jail, held incommunicado in a mysterious chateau. He escapes, makes his way back to Paris where he gets involved...
...Author, unlike most of his colleagues, writes from his own eight-year experience as a Pinkerton detective. ''The first three or four years were fun," says he. "Then it got tedious. . . . The funniest case I ever worked on was the Arbuckle affair in San Francisco. In trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong...