Word: debonaire
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Seldom have so many famed flyers gathered together as in a banquet room of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt one night last week. There were bronzed "Lon" Yancey, meek-looking Clarence Chamberlin, debonair Col. Fitzmaurice and his rescuer, sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying...
...Powell has had better and probably worse parts. He had better get vehicles of a slightly higher order, however, or he will lose his popularity. This business of being debonair can not go on forever. In this particular picture Mr. Powell is a racketeer who extorts money from American tourists in Paris. Of course, he falls in love with the charming niece of a fat business man who has just been fleeced. However, even the fact that the story has not the usual turn for the good and the subsequent happy ending can not rouse one from a slumping position...
Armed with the last vestiges of "The Royal Family" -- gestures, double-breasted suit, and all--he steps through his latest offering with a debonair air of assurance, avoiding the usual movie smart Alec flippancy. He plays the part of a wealthy wastrel, who reforms because of the proximity of a charming secretary (Claudette Colbert) with a natural grace. Just here let it be said that Miss Colbert certainly seems to be worth reforming...
...Devil to Pay (Goldwyn). The millions of young U. S. women whose admiration has made Ronald Colman the most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake...
...cardinals might have chosen any Catholic male over 30 for Pope. But of course they would not. The late debonair Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val was seriously discussed as the Able Man. So too were a few others. But the preponderant choice after seven ballots, as everyone now knows, was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan...