Word: coy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Outcast. She has earned more than $2,000,000 by acting but has not got it now. Famed for her Temperament, her 30 pedigreed Schnauzer dogs, her dramatic manner in conversation, and the way her eyes change color, she said at the time of her divorce from Ted Coy, onetime Yale footballer: "My love affairs, my servants, and the food I eat are not public property." When the Actors' Equity Association accused her of being a contract-breaker she pointed to the fact that she had missed only 18 performances in five years of Rain. She seems smaller...
Very cautious and coy was that gruff Bulgarian elder statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, when he arrived in Rome last week, reputedly to represent Tsar Boris of Bulgaria in the matter of Princess Giovanna of Italy. This royal match has been rumored for so many years that incredulity must again be to the fore. All the same M. Muchanoff allowed himself to be most significantly quoted by the militant Fascist daily Il Tevere. At the very least his words served notice to Italians that a Roman Catholic princess need not switch to the Orthodox faith in order to become Bulgaria...
...Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist. He had persuaded Ludovic Halevy, boulevardier & librettist...
...Case Corp. (makers of Movietone) three weeks ago offered George Gershwin tens of thousands to let them use his tiresomely admired "Rhapsody in Blue" and to write incidental cinema music for them. He was cagey about terms and coy about the picture work. Although he publicly declared that he would not write music for the cinema, last week he was still considering Fox offers...
Married. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, Yale footballer (Captain 1909), last month divorced from Actress Jeanne Eagles (TIME, July 23); to Miss Lottie Bruhn of El Paso; in El Paso...