Word: enchantress
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Three Lives. A Hollywood star lives at least three different lives. One is the life on the screen. There, Ava has consistently been the coldhearted, hot-blooded enchantress, low-voiced, slow-moving, a little sleepy, every man's dish and every woman's poison...
...this is more of a loss than a gain ; for Miss Barrymore's incorrigible abilities as an enchantress, however inappropriate to the role, were practically all that made the play shine. Moreover, Miss Davis is not old enough, as Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust...
...social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized these horse-&-buggyish ardors in the road-sterish form of It, thus provided a racy vehicle for Cinemactress Clara...
Behind the royal yacht came the Admiralty yacht Enchantress bristling with Sea Lords, a number of chartered ocean liners, bearing 3,000 favored British taxpayers, and at the rear', 3½-miles behind the royal yacht, the splashing paddle-wheel steamer Whippingham, bearing 300 disgusted newskawks who scarcely saw the royal yacht...
...Queen Mother, new King George VI, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, drove last week at great speed through night and fog to Portsmouth, intending to embark on the Admiralty Yacht. At the last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria...