Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much different atmosphere is the co-feature, "Desirable," a, delightful even if at times unconvincing romance. Jean Muir, newly arrived to stardom, as the naive and ingenuously piquant daughter of a prominent actress too vain to admit having a child so old is charming in her simplicity, George Brent as the old friend of her mother's who elects himself as her guardian and educates her so that she may be "desirable" is as bland and gracious as ever. The role of the actress mother is capably handled by Vera Teasdale. Though at times the acting is overdone...
...basis of a ''charm test" devised by a professor of hygiene. President Andrew J. May of the White House Photographers Association graded his frequent subject, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall, gave her 97% From a perfect score Photographer May deducted three points: one because he "suspects" the President's daughter uses a bit of rouge; one because she does not always toe straight; one because, at 134 lb., she seems slightly underweight. For the new president and football coach of Notre Dame, the South Bend, Ind. Chamber of Commerce held a testimonial dinner, invited Editor Merle Thorpe...
Reduced to plot, there is little that is new to the cinema in the story of John and Maggie Shand. Nor can the picture's charm be ascribed to Scottish atmosphere, scrupulously maintained, from the unavoidable scene in which Maggie and John sing "Loch Lomond'' in the parlor to the MGM gesture of reproducing in every detail a real Scottish railway train for one brief sequence. Behind such externals lies the warm, human sympathy of an author whose works should eventually prove as popular in Hollywood as those of Charles Dickens are at present. Good shot: Dudley...
...York, Oct. 18--Margery Wilson, who describes herself as a "charm expert" and whose correspondence as such keeps 30 stenographers flailing their typewriters, announced to the United Press today that she has completed a "conversation test" among 10,000 American women...
Boston University speaks, "Some Harvard men have intellectual achievement and charm, but they are sloppy in the way they dress, have a terrible accent, and are too superior...