Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the peccadillos of Manhattan bluebloods and, according to rumor, based on fact. Playboy Muggy Williams swears to nail Mrs. Townsend's hide to his barn door because she insulted his fiancée. He hires a senorita from a Park Avenue brothel to pose as a Spanish countess. Promptly, Mrs. Townsend plans a dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces that he has wed the countess...
Charles Boyer, as the Emperor, is excellent. Actually, however, it is the sensitive acting of Greta Garbo which enhances the value of Mr. Boyer's portrayal. As the Countess Marie Walweska, with whom Napoleon falls deeply in love, she is a perfect foil for her leading...
...Napoleon's empire, and of the great retreat from Russia, but little attempt is made to tie these strands together or to indicate their relation to the major theme. Moreover, the love affair itself is not logically treated; it is, for instance, quire impossible to believe that the Countess could hate napoleon in one moment and love him in the next simply because in the meantime he had delivered a noble address on liberty and democracy. Nevertheless, its excellent acting saves "Conquest" and raises it to the level of an outstanding film...
Born. To Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...
...like the U. S. but want more pay-Babs with our money runs away. Such was the legend striking employes of three F. W. Woolworth stores in New York carried on picket placards day after 25-year-old Countess Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara Hutton) spent five minutes in a courtroom on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain...