Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actor Leslie Howard, slim Englishman who is more than likely to be found in the creations of such froth blowers of the drama as P. G. Wodehouse and Frederick Lonsdale. For Messrs. Galsworthy and Ames he has turned murderer, and he goes through parts of the play, his normally immaculate countenance grimy with sweat and an uncut beard...
...staging is not so excellent as usual. Mr. Galsworthy's thesis is engrossing in a faintly inhibited fashion. "Gentleman worship" is a cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto the end, a normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen...
...Yale 1918. Other members of the class: Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, Ohio State Senator John Martin Vorys (son of William Howard Taft's political sponsor, Arthur Isaiah Vorys), Playwright Philip J. Q. Barry (You and I, In a Garden, etc.), Book Critic John Chipman Farrar, Novelist Wilmarth S. Lewis (See MILESTONES, p. 24), Chevalier Artemus L. Gates of the Legion of Honor, Newell Garfield (presidential grandson), Arthur Yales (gargantuan golfer...
...imposing British Embassy on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, with its magnificent double, red-carpeted staircase and historic portraits, Sir Esme William Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., and Lady Isabella Howard† gave the first ball of the season...
...reason Lady Howard is called Lady Isabella Howard is that she, daughter of Prince Giustiniani-Bandini, Earl of 'Newburgh, was born a Lady in her own right in Austria...