Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STOREVIK-Gøsta af Geijerstam-Dutton ($2). Life on a Norway fjord: a bucolic Scandinavian approximation to the simplicity and fresh charm of Mrs. Roosevelt's column...
...Horse Parks. As WPA extends from storm sewers to nursery schools, so the interests and adaptabilities of Harry Lloyd Hopkins are equally diverse. He is at home in the slums, planning improvements, and in his rich friends' boxes at race tracks, picking winners. He can talk with equal charm to dear old ladies and to glamor girls, can sit with groups of serious thinkers, or join the boys in the back room. Since he got rid of his stomach ulcer last December and recuperated at Ambassador Joe Kennedy's house in Palm Beach, he can eat and drink...
...first two Durbin pictures managed to emphasize the star's girlish naivete without letting it get completely out of hand. Result is a pleasingly preposterous little fable which, while more sophisticated than any of Miss Durbin's contributions, rivals them in its fresh and energetic charm...
...children, she can still say: "Ain't life funny and grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that it is offered as further confirmation of Author Brinig's emergence as a coming major novelist...
...possible solutions to the present problem of House dances, the projected Harvard "prom" is undoubtedly the worst. Such a function, while getting rid of none of the important evils of House dances, would completely destroy the charm of the undergraduate social season, and would cause every self-respecting student to go out of town for the weekend on which it was held...