Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double bill comprising "Early To Bed," a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy and "Fatal Lady," starring Mary Ellis and Walter Pidgeon. Not having seen either of these worthy efforts we hesitate to advance too definite an opinion of their merits. It seems fairly obvious, however, that the Ruggles-Boland affair will prove gently diverting and productive of laughs from those who find the comic strip "Mr. and Mrs." a mordant social commentary. With equal likelihood the Ellis-Pidgeon doings will add up to a well-acted romantic involvement...
...drew no more to Stockholm in 1933. A ringing tribute to the gregarious quality of U. S. Womanhood was Conference No. 3 in Washington last week. Some 7,000 women, 18 to 80, arrived by bus, car and rail from all parts of the nation. To give the affair an international tone, there were also women from Ceylon, Rhodesia, Latvia, 19 other countries, who joined this largest female host ever to descend on Washington. For five days at Constitution Hall and all over the District of Columbia the Country Women had a high old time under the vague, idealistic auspices...
...National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, and its General Anastasio Somoza, who had deployed his men around the base of the volcano. No murmur of protest at these activities rose from the Nicaraguan populace, who chose to regard the affair strictly as a quarrel between Somoza and Sacasa for the right to name Nicaragua's next President...
...spite of its mystifying title and occasional turgidity, Private Number is more than a cliche in modern dress. Its interest does not lie in the love affair but in its exposition of the complicated backstairs politics of a big household. Wroxton's perpetual quarrel with the cook, his sly methods of bullying the chauffeur, his espionage operations with the downstairs maid, his scavenging the household's pay envelopes and extending his influence into the private lives of his employers are a competent addition to current institutional screen drama...
...WEATHER IN THE STREETS-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). The author of Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz follows a too-familiar modern pattern. Olivia leaves her literary husband, slips into a love affair with the Prince Charming of her girlhood, finds out he is not worth the trouble he makes...