Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce her with the aid of an Indian love charm. He is prancing over the divan, shouting to Cecilia to stop crying mascara over the cushions, when Joe and Nellie come dashing to her rescue. After many other antics, Cecilia finally has her debut as a singer. Sample caper: Hardy swallows an inch-long harmonica after which Laurel plays Pop Goes...
...egocentric murderer and in which the action consists of his efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London and two months in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12), scores on both counts, easily the most interesting...
...Hall, it might repay inquiry to discover how any responsible person could get such an idea of the men who administer the daily life of the college. For a man holding the position of dean must combine the executive ability to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the personal charm to inspire the confidence of students and outsiders with whom he comes in contact, and the intellectual outlook of a teacher as well as of office manager and publicity man. From the Dean of the College right down the list to the assistant dean of Freshmen these qualities of character...
...when all is said and done the personal magnetism and charm of a dean is his most important characteristic. Unlike a great professor who can draw people to him by the wealth of his learning, however disagreeable and cantankerous he may be, a dean must inspire the respect and loyalty of everybody who deals with him. A chance or thoughtless word, though off-hand and unintentional, may convince an undergraduate that the heart of University Hall is black and malign. But, given a man with an attractive personality and the ability to manage people, the opportunities of assistant deans...
...party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles and his glowering pressagent (Lionel Stander), they are definitely the former...