Word: glamourizer
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FALLING STAR-Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran ($2). This translation of Hollywood into terms of romance should please many a reader, including even Hollywoodland sprites. German Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak...
Wall Street wags last week insisted that the only reason the House of Morgan took in no new partners on Jan. 1 was that the firm could find no one who would join. The Senate Banking & Currency investigation, they said, had stripped all glamour from a Morgan partnership. But admittance of a new Morgan partner is by no means an annual event. Last one to sign the articles of copartnership was Charles Denston Dickey two years...
...York has not seen a real Russian ballet since Diaghilev and the great Nijinsky went back to Europe 16 years ago. It was, therefore, rare and oldtime glamour that filled St. James Theatre one night last week for the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. Backstage had all been carpeted to protect the ballerinas' feet. Samovars and champagne pails were in the dressing-rooms. Out front were people who had paid up to $100 for their seats. There were cheers and flowers for every curtain call. At a champagne supper afterwards old Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath was so enthusiastic that...
...reading. Most of the narratives are well chosen, and in many cases they have the ring of truth. In selecting them, Yeats-Brown has wisely avoided the glossy newness of the recent past, and, by temperate use of the editorial pencil, has preserved that quaintness of style which lends glamour to the adventurers of another...
...fast a pace as it did against Harvard but after all, the judging is done on the basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet eleven. But the unity of the team lent glamour to the individuals and after reflection it is possible to find instances where other players might fit in better...