Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawkins had his 19-year-old daughter, Stephana, concoct "the most impossible, inane and childish semblance of a story that it was possible to conceive." Miss Hawkins produced "Her Terrible Mistake, by Lottie Perkins." It told how "Mary Jane Smith ... a very pretty girl of 17 . . . fell devinely in love with a very nice fellow who was a machinic by the name of Jack Berry." A slick city stranger comes to town, is about to seduce Mary Jane when her "fionce" exposes him as "a villian in sheeps clothing ... a traveling salesman." "O Jack my Hero, I am so glad...
...administrative go-getter, was the Lyceum's real head, lost no opportunities to show Munck his place. Munck swallowed his pride, went on teaching piano and trying unsuccessfully to get on with his composition. In one pupil, tall, gawky Jeanette. he became really interested; soon he was in love with her. When she went away with a younger man Munck hardly cared what happened next. After a while he pulled himself together, resigned from the Lyceum, got a job kettledrumming in an orchestra. He commuted to his work from a shabby town in New Jersey. There till late...
...through the War but had never seen much life. A pathologically shy bachelor, he finally decided to take a holiday in Italy and do a thing or two while there was yet time. He liked being in Capri out of season and got along beautifully till he fell in love with buxom young Caterina. Then his troubles started. When he finally persuaded her to run off with him by night, the romantic row to the mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help...
...part of Mrs. Vulpy: Rene O. Z. Whitehead '34 Sparrowly R. F. Alsop '36 Trevor Robert Breckinridge '34 William H. O. Tudor '35 Ludovic H. D. Patterson '34 Colonel Mutsome W. S. Burrage '33 John R. J. Bry '35 Claire Elizabeth Morison Agatha Jeanne McMillan Hortensia Agnes Love Sybil Betty Love...
...Christian beards, exciting pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because of his love for Mercia (Elissa Landi), one of the persecuted Christians, and Claudette Colbert, who plays Nero's wife, Poppaea, do very well, but Charles Laughton, as the fat, indolent Nero, gives the picture its life blood. See him reclining after a heavy night of delicious debauchery while he puffs for breath...