Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this love the Ogpu, according to minimum estimates, has tried in its own star chamber courts and executed in its cellars not less than 10,000 Russians; has shipped off to Siberia not less than 1,000,000 and today employs in its penal labor gangs not less than...
...moonfaced Italian barber sat in the audience at the San Francisco Opera House one night last week, beaming as if there were nothing in the world which pleased him more than the comical antics in The Barber of Seville. He beamed at Tito Schipa as the love-smitten Count, at Ezio Pinza as the crafty music-master, at Louis D'Angelo as the doddering old doctor, at Richard Bonelli who flourished razor and brush with the ease of a professional. The little Italian barber had reason to be pleased that night. In the company of such experienced singers...
...which is interrupted, amid great applause, at the end of a stereotyped preamble. A brilliant, poetic idealist, he gets into trouble with the father of his girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...
...disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very 'ot." The picture also introduces blandly comic Eric Blore (Top Haf) and an amiable seal. Good shot: Blore & seal gazing reproachfully at Miss Pons, who has stolen the seal's breakfast fish, cooked it for her husband...
Died. H. R. H. Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary, 67, sister of George V; of stomach hemorrhage; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Princess Victoria's retired life and spinsterhood were popularly attributed to an early love affair with a man whom her rank forbade her to marry...