Word: gildas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy, engenders love and such songs as Rose Marie and Indian Love Call, whose charm twelve years of plugging have not impaired. Though Bruce's capture of her brother temporarily dampens their ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan...
...head, and sometimes he wore a broad-brimmed white hat. He joked with his audiences about his frequent campaigns for President, and he spoke to them of the general glories of the Florida climate. After the address, which lasted about one hour, people crowded up to shake hands. Then Gilda Gray danced for the same real estate company." In the 1924 Democratic convention Bryan was a delegate from Florida (after the Hollywood, Fla., News had suggested that ''that would give Miami two or three million dollars' worth of printer's ink free"). The Great Commoner suggested...
Your "error in fact" lies in your designation of Gilda's furniture as moderne. This particular species (if we may be allowed to use the term) has long been classed with forgotten disasters. It appeared and disappeared in New York shortly after the Paris exposition in 1925. No one makes it now and no one buys it. Only New York thought it found in the erotic delirium of "moderne" a salvation of American home furnishing artistry. Grand Rapids did not participate in this fiasco...
...designs of Gilda's furniture may best be classed with your critic's apt designation as, "rolling...
...years later Gilda is inhabiting a gaudy penthouse full of Grand Rapids moderne furniture which she is selling to people with more money than taste. Suddenly in the midst of a party Leo and Otto appear, identically and immaculately clad in faultless evening dress. They have, it seems, been traveling. "You must forgive our clothes," says urbane Leo. "We just got off a freight boat." Soon the safely married Gilda succumbs to their witty charms, and when the art broker-husband returns from Chicago he is told that the three will resume their private offensive against the social code. While...