Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Taylor has charm, but he's not sexy." He appeals to the flappers, not to the women who are a little smart--you know what I mean." Mae had an explanation for Gable, too. He puts himself over by force, "by wresstling with the women...
...Mary Knight-Macmillan ($3). Lively memoirs of a successful woman foreign correspondent, until eight years ago a stay-at-home Atlanta girl. No oracle on world affairs, her book reflects the nerve, nervous energy and Southern charm that got her to the top so quickly...
Sailing Along (Gaumont British) stars England's top singer and dancer, Jessie Matthews, in a jarring $900,000 blend of inexpensive, landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
...that handed them by three feminine debaters at the Catholic college of Misericordia. This debate was presented before an audience packed with attractive Misericordia girls and followed by informal dancing with the opposing team. Veteran debaters rated Misericordia speakers above representatives of Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Vassar in poise, charm, and even debating! Arrangements were concluded on the spot for a return debate at Harvard next Fall...
...conservative. Compared to most conservative paintings, they are deadly nightshade. Constructed with mathematical care, painted large and sombre, each conveys an atmosphere or a character with almost malignant intensity. Balthus' paintings of children, for example, suggest their potentialities as sadists, lechers and wretches as clearly as their childish charm. If this austere originality appears incapable of lightness, even morbid, most visitors last week conceded its maturity and credited it with at least one painting of extraordinary power-a portrait of Artist André Derain...