Word: hostessing
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...Stephen Vincent Benet, "Dangerous To Know" and "Love, Honor, and Behave" constitute an average double bill. Mr. Wallace's effort is by far the better, and to his good, albeit depressing, story is added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla Lane...
When her father left No. 10 Downing Street, Ishbel decided to employ her servants in the 17th-Century inn at Speen. Hard by Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers, the Plow became a stopping place for tourists who came to see the former hostess of No. 10 handing out half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts...
...production. Akim Tamiroff, alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, has had 60-odd Hollywood roles, nearly all of them brooding and villainous, most of them whiskery. In this picture he is a thin-mustached, esthetic bigwig racketeer who tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare a fine-feathered society girl (Gail Patrick), accidentally spills a little salt...
...declared that maritime labor conditions were so bad that he would never allow a member of his family to take a U. S. ship, but this coming week Mr. Kennedy will sail on the S. S. Manhattan (U. S. Lines) with his daughter, Kathleen, who will act as his hostess in the U. S. Embassy in London until his wife recovers from an appendectomy...
Engaged, Ishbel Allan MacDonald. 55, onetime (1924, 1929-35) hostess at No. 10 Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman ("Tinker") Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician's helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen's band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England...