Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gradual insinuation into the usual clothing and some gay prattle with a friend, Kay Francis toward evening goes to a jewel shop with husband, lover and friend. She meets the king of the jewel thieves (William Powell) engaged in cleaning out the store. Between the two expensive parasites love burgeons. Says Kay Francis later: "As I saw him go about his business, I realized what a high civilization we have in Europe. He stormed that shop like a hewo." The picture wavers between light comedy and farce, William Powell straining toward the first, Kay Francis relaxing in the second...
...machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog...
Died. Bahiyyih Khanum, 85, daughter of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, in Haifa, Palestine. She was regarded by her sect as the world's holiest woman of all time. Baha'is believe in the oneness of mankind, internationalism, universal peace and love, equal opportunities and rights for both sexes. There are some 8,000 believers in the U. S. (TIME, March 10, 1930; July...
...type who "lets one down." He is bothered by a mysterious South American named Garsuvin, by a chorus of wiggling Tahitian girls, by a Hollywood cinema producer, by a London tycoon who takes William Dursley on a tour of speakeasies and to a bicycle race. William Dursley falls in love twice: first with the U. S. girl who presently runs off with a cinema troupe in Tahiti, then with an English widow who nurses him out of a fever caught while carousing shyly with the native girls...
Kaoru desires Agemaki, but she wants no man. When he tries to consummate his love, she substitutes her sister in the bed. Shocked. Kaoru leaves Kozeri untouched, begins to see that he has been unfaithful to Prince Hachi's trust. He determines to befriend the girls by marrying Kozeri off to his noble friend Niou. The gallant Niou succeeds in winning her, takes her off to court. But soon, for court reasons, he has to reduce her to concubinage. With her tragic disappointment the book ends. Though Niou "vowed to cherish her in this life and all lives to come...