Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their next meeting of importance occurred at a party given by Hollywood's famed Countess di Frasso in 1935. By this time, Carole Lombard had divorced William Powell and Gable was no longer living with his wife. Countess di Frasso's guests had been asked to come in something white. Carole Lombard arrived in a white ambulance, wearing a white nightgown, lying on a white cot which was carried in by three white-clad interns. She and Gable danced together all evening. Later, Lombard had the ambulance decorated with a red heart and sent it to Gable...
...Philadelphia Story (by Philip Barry; produced by The Theatre Guild Inc.) shows: 1) Katharine Hepburn back on Broadway after years in cinema; 2) Philip Barry back at smart comedy after his cosmic flight in Here Come the Clowns; 3) The Theatre Guild back in the money after a season of disastrous flops...
Major Lawrence Lee Bazley ("Boom'') Angas is a pink & white Britisher with a reputation for making daring predictions which have sometimes come true. He is supposed to have foretold the collapse of rubber in 1926, the rise of gold shares in 1931. He won his nickname with a much-publicized booklet, The Coming American Boom, which heralded his arrival in the U. S. in 1934. Since then he has conducted his business as an investment counselor in Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice...
...like everyone else on F. Donald Coster, credited him with a Ph. D. from Heidelberg -announced in a promotion booklet that henceforth it would exercise such precautions as checking college degrees. F. Donald Coster's surname and his early "Girard & Co.", speculated Who's Who, might have come from one Gerard F. Coster who was mentioned in a biographical compilation of rich New Yorkers published...
Baton Rouge. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is the second book in three weeks to come out of the new Southern literary centre at Baton Rouge, La. That eminent patron of the arts, the late Huey Long, inadvertently started a writing colony there when he imported a group of young Southern writers to give his Louisiana State University intellectual prestige to match its new buildings. Leader is Robert Penn Warren, who found time to edit a critical quarterly, The Southern Review, while writing his first novel, Night Rider (TIME, March...