Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somoza makes it his business to turn his effervescent charm full-faucet on U.S. diplomats and officials. James Bolton Stewart, now U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, speaks up stoutly for Somoza's "stable" administration. Tacho, who likes a pun, has amiably referred to the Ambassador as "my steward...
They Met in Moscow (Artkino), an unpretentious Russian nonwar film, establishes a Second Front in cinemusicals. It proves with great charm that if a director has a healthy appetite for the beauty of the world as it is, "production numbers" are unnecessary...
...great know-how with facts, had again got himself in trouble because of words. A grandnephew of William Gladstone, son of a Cabinet Minister, he was born to the salons of British power. Tall, heavy-mustached, with a penchant for double-breasted waistcoats, he has a personal charm that smooths all paths for him. His business abilities were established beyond cavil by his spectacular rise in the metals industry, wherein he first became manager of the giant British Metal Corp. and then fathered a world tin cartel...
...plot is the perennial one of the middle-aged couple who find their love cooling after eight years of married life. Believing that the reason for her husband's inattentiveness is her lack of charm and physical appeal, Katherine undergoes a week's treatment at a milk farm. While she is away, David, her husband, becomes lonely, gets drunk and picks up a sleazy, drawling streetwalker whom he takes home for the night. The pair is discovered eating breakfast the next morning by Katherine, who returns earlier than expected. The remainder of the play concorns Katherine's efforts to incite...
...some people, life was pleasant in Rome last week. Bright sunshine and tempering breezes by day, a waxing moon by night added charm to the beautiful, eternal city...