Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to learn something about the continental approach to romance, drop over to the Exeter theatre and see "Intermezzo." This ten year old film stars Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman whose polished performances redeem an otherwise implausible and dull story...
...Howard plays a successful violinist who, returning to his home in Sweden from an American concert tour, must find a new accompanist because his old one is about to retire. Who should turn up to fill the post but his little daughter's piano teacher, played by Miss Bergman. Several arpeggios and one bottle of champagne later, the two have fallen deeply in love; a fortunate thing for the audience, but most unfortunate for Howard's wife and two children and Miss Bergman's promising career as a pianist...
...Howard S. Hibbett, Jr., linguist, of Woodside, New York. A.B. Harvard...
...Editor Louis Seltzer fed Staffer Frank Stewart a fancy lunch one day in 1938 and then "promoted" him to church editor of the Cleveland Press, Stewart felt like a fattened turkey under the ax. To Stewart, who had been night editor, sports editor and state editor of the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 282,000), the promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then...
...Woman's Story (Rank; Universal-International) has been told often and better by Hollywood. In this ill-advised British-made version, the glamorous, irresolute heroine (Ann Todd) decides to marry wealth and security (Claude Rains), but she cannot bring herself to let go of romance (Trevor Howard...