Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Howard's blond charm and gentle British passivity have on occasion seemed to endow plays like The Petrified Forest with a brooding, thoughtful quality not indicated in the script. But, as those who saw his film Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...
...Blond, graceful Leopold Stokowski mounted the stand, back as guest conductor with the Orchestra he left last spring to go to Hollywood (TIME, Oct. 19). Conductor Stokowski took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...
While in Minnesota Swedes hold a gala country dance, big blond square-headed people singing and shouting and stamping and reeling. While in Vermont Ephraim Putney puts down "The Contry Gentleman" and rubs his eyes as he clumps in his loose old Congress gaiters up to bed. While in Florida a huge corps of painters, cleaning-women and janitors go over the Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns...
Marriage Revealed. Cinemactor Arthur ("Harpo") Marx, 42, mute member of the four Marx comedians; and Susan Fleming, 31, onetime Follies showgirl; "around Sept. 26"; "somewhere in California or Nevada." Minus his frowzy blond wig, he said he had driven aimlessly with his brunette bride-to-be until he found a justice of the peace, went through the ceremony unrecognized. Upon telegraphing President Roosevelt congratulations, Funnyman Marx explained he had kept his marriage secret until after Nov. 3 "because I didn't want to crowd you off the front page...
...chief thing that distinguishes Henry ("Scotty") Scott, 26, from thousands of other medium-blond, medium-sized young men is his ability to play the piano wearing mittens. As a youth at Syracuse University, he intended to be a serious concert pianist, until a winter day when he went indoors from skating with hands so freezing cold that he kept on his mittens to practice his scales...