Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought...
Miss Velez, known as "Scoop" and an advocate of four love affairs before marriage, said of her own husband, who crashed the movies as Tarzan, "Although he doesn't do any tree-swinging around the house, he wears the pants in the family, and I'm proud of it. He's my favorite leading...
Robert Taylor she "can't see for dust." Of the relative merits of Boston and New Haven audiences she said, "I love them all; they all pay $3.30." Miss Wing thought that New Haven audiences were "rather rowdyish and full of stage-door Johnnies...
...fussed with a recalcitrant eyelash, she branched off into foreign affairs long enough to go on record in favor of a Pan-American Union. She said "I love everything and everybody, and that's why I've never had a flop...
Contrasting the Crime Club's late Edgar Wallace with the Saturday Evening Post's 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...