Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Barbara was aboard the Lurline. we were privileged to know her better than we have the vast majority of our fellow voyageurs during Sally's five and my twelve years' cruise experience. She vouchsafed us several personal and unusually laudable confidences that have caused us to love, cherish and admire her as we have few, if any, before her. Not only does she neither drink nor smoke, but if given half a chance by a morbidly curious, thoughtless world she could, without half trying, win it completely. An innate sweetness and native charm amply justify the plea...
...Love & Goodwill...
Myrna Loy, who has probably appeared in more different lands in movie versions than any other star, is the lovely white woman who falls under the spell of her Arab dragomen escorting her into the sands where she is to meet Reginald Denny, her fiance. One anticipates she will be carried off to the tribe and married by force. She is kidnapped but a blow across the face convinces the Arab that she doesn't like fooling, and his prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana...
Hold Your Man (MGM). Jean Harlow is the pattern for every U. S. dance hall hostess whose hair responds to dye. Clark Gable is the apotheosis of the heel.* They therefore constitute an ideal starring team for a picture, of which the aim is to romanticize the love life of a Brooklyn strumpet and a petty thief...
...after all. Formal, slow-moving, ceremoniously polite, Lady Murasaki's court romance is peopled by very human beings (some 800 in all). Hero is Prince Genji, illegitimate son of an emperor, a Japanese Don Juan without Byronic weaknesses or vulgarities. By the end of the fourth volume his love-affairs and political maneuvers have landed him in exile. In a lapse of eight years between the fourth and fifth volumes Genji dies: the last two volumes tell the story of the rivalry between his grandson, Niou, and his reputed son, Kaoru. Occidental readers may be disappointed in the inconclusive...