Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarah Delano Roosevelt mingled in the five ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...
Overwhelmed by a stroke of good fortune which he regards as the reward of his own patience and integrity, Dr. Sporum's first impulse is to buy himself a patented pencil sharpener. His second is to fall in love with his benefactress, who begins to understand the perils of irresponsible benevolence. By the time Dr. Sporum has had his beard shaved off and presented Luisa Ginglebusher with a fox neckpiece, there is nothing much left in The Good Fairy except the scene in which Luisa explains to her three puzzled admirers what she has been up to, straightens...
...usual, the chieftain's daughter takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their backs to the camera yammering around a pile of holy sticks...
...Preisler went to the cinema. They had been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...
...quite well from Nancy Sheridan as the oldest daughter on whom the brunt of the family troubles lie, down to young Richard Jack, who puts on a surprisingly fine performance as the young boy of the house. It is the task of the eldest child to keep the publicity loving mother and her nefarious actions from driving the rest of the family to distraction. The boy and his young sister, Helen Claire, take the eccentricities of their mother most sincerely to heart with the result that they are unable to stand the atmosphere she creates in the house...