Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diego, Calif, after a hunting accident. Said he: "She is a most attractive woman and has one of the strongest characters I have ever known any person to possess. She is a lovely person, intelligent, witty and good company. 'Stimulating' is the word which best describes her charm. Our marriage lasted eight years, and we parted twelve years ago. I think Wallis Simpson is a wonderful woman. In whatever future she may choose-into whatever places it may take her-I wish her my very best. She will always hold my respect and admiration...
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...
Awarded. To Actress Ina Claire, 44; by Yale Professor William Lyon Phelps: the American Academy of Arts & Letters annual gold medal for diction, "for her charm, elegance and naturalness in speech"; in Manhattan, by radio to Chicago where she was performing...
...what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce, "with such richness of voice, such simplicity of phrasing and such communicative charm that they enchanted an audience almost 100 per cent at sea as to their meaning...
...Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter his calm executive mask. He has disrupted story conferences with imitations of Rudy Vallee and Joe E. Brown, can hold his own at banquets with professional gagsters. Tall, affable, dimpled, his personal charm is notable in a business whose executives are conspicuously lacking in that quality...