Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia's infatuation blinds her to the worth of her suitor (Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion...
...picture is Hollywood's idea of a painless way to present good music to the great American public, but it just doesn't pan out that way. Only those who are sufficiently fond of classical music to sit through some pretty poor sequences are advised to go. We submit the same advice to lovers of more popular music, for Bing Crosby's "Double or Nothing" is far from the ideal musical comedy...
Regardless of all fond hopes to the contrary, the Elis will arrive in Cambridge a well-rounded team. Frank is an All-American, but Miller at end, punter Colwell, and Charlie Ewart are all names to conjure with as well. They have material with which to capitalize on breaks, a defense to keep them out of trouble and a punter to get them out of holes. But Harvard has a smoother, more polished team. A more powerful line,--and a flock of breaks long overdue...
...fond of Bankhead But I'd love to meet Tallulah -But that's off the record...
...prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...