Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort of her mother's lonely life (Evelyn Venable) and even dresses up in Civil War hoopskirts to render "Love's Young Dream" on the harp...
Vanessa: Her Love Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), adapted by Hugh Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down...
...while at a downtown college, then goes abroad. He gets little good out of England, finds Paris more to his taste. There he meets Starwick again, spends hard-living months with him and two U. S. girls, one of whom has left her husband for Starwick. Eugene falls in love with the other, only to find that she, too, loves Starwick. His disappointment, coupled with a suspicion that his friend is not as manly as he might be, leads to a final quarrel. The quartet breaks up, Eugene adventures for a time by himself, finally decides to go home...
...saint; there were "at least a dozen women in his life . . . there is no doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini says hardly a word. Of the divine fire that must have blazed behind Dante's cold Catholic exterior his biographer does not give even a pale reflection...
...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...