Word: gigolos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir William Rothenstein, 73, amiable, bespectacled British artist who for five decades made competent portraits of celebrities, achieved celebrity himself with his anecdote-crammed memoirs (Men and Memories, Since Fifty) about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso ("the gigolo of geometry") and H. G. Wells ("a great literary cartoonist"). Sample Rothenstein sidelight on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: "He is my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very...
...interviews a wonderful, boozy old floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full...
...Thugs" v. "Gigolo." To newsmen, Edmundson denounced the Lewismen as "payrollers, sluggers, drunks, alley thugs...
Next day, in Cincinnati's gabled, turreted old Music Hall, John L. counterattacked Edmundson. To the cheering delegates he growled: "There isn't any mincing, lackadaisical, lace-pantied gigolo going to dethrone John L. in his own convention...
...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...