Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot has to do with the difficulties of one who suddenly finds himself transplanted from the present into the Eighteenth century. A charming old house in Berkley Square with its glamorous traditions of lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this...
...Manslaughter", now playing at the University, is an unusually good talkie. Its success comes entirely from the technical excellence of the direction and the personal charm of Claudette Colbert whose performance makes young men return again and again to the scene of the crime...
Musical drollery, even horseplay, is found in the popular "Merry Pranks" of Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary figure in Germany. In this, Richard Strauss introduces many novel twists and at all times the comedy is good. Debussey's "Afternoon of a Faun" will add to the program sublety and charm...
...March 31: . . . Mr. Lloyd George is a man of great charm and very amusing. He held forth on the Irish question and said when he had the various leaders before him he could never get from them what they wanted. The President said he would simply turn the whole matter over to the Irish people if he were the British Government and reserve the motion picture rights...
Beauties that charm, large industries that bless...