Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rainy Afternoon succeeds by carefiul artistry in not being quotable. It not being quotable. is a musical comedy without words and without plot. Its virtue is its nonchalance which inexplicably becomes a striking feat of dramaturgy. Typical characters: Countess de Maigret as the wife whose idea of an escapade is to ride around the block in a taxicab with a lover who can be with her only in dark motion picture houses; Hugh Herbert as the theatrical prompter who, when off duty, prompts from force of habit the conversational clichés of those around...
...everlasting infamy as a cad. Even as it is, his biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice." Of all its episodes, the one involving Jane Clairmont and Byron, with the Countess Guiceioli bobbing up and down and Allegra abandoned to the Carbonari and the managerie and the Hoppners and the Capuchin Convent in Bagnacavallo is the least edifying...
Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7½ Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly...
Although the film is played in modern dress, its humor is of another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their...
Last week Edward F. Hutton, uncle of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, resigned as board chairman of General Foods Corp.* Of three possible reasons for his retirement only one was given in the official explanation: ill health. Still living quietly on his 16,000-acre South Carolina shooting preserve, Mr. Hutton intended to resign, said the directors, "when the evidence was sufficiently clear that the Depression was subsiding." Smart Executive Vice President Clarence Francis was upped one notch, and President Colby M. Chester was made board chairman and chief executive officer...