Word: lunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come back into favor. From last year's high of 453, the American Kennel Club's dachshund registration has now leaped to some 2,200. The dog's droll appearance and manners, its intelligence, loyalty and hardiness have won it friends. Some famed dachs-owners: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, Otto Kahn, Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, Katharine Cornell, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Tauber, Dorothy Parker...
Last week Manhattan audiences witnessed the dramatic fruit of this long, three-cornered friendship, Design For Living-"a play about three people who love each other very much." The erstwhile young Englishman, Noel Coward, had written it and was acting in it. So were Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...wishes she could believe in "God and the Daily Mail and Mother India." Physiological studies do not wholly satisfy her. ("If you knew what was going on inside you, you would probably be bitterly offended.") In her quandary she is about to switch her allegiance from Otto (Mr. Lunt), a painter, to his good friend, playwriting Leo (Mr. Coward). According to Leo, he and Gilda have just gone for "an unpremeditated roll...
...spite of makeup which gives her eyelids a furry look and her old tendency to read her more dramatic lines as though she were giving a schoolroom recital of Elektra, Actress Fontanne manages to be conspicuously charming in a role which is not a paragon of lucidity. Actor Lunt is at all times expertly droll, although his parts in The Guardsman and Reunion In Vienna appear to have permanently endowed him with a Central European accent. Actor Coward, particularly when he is imitating a butler on a telephone and giving an interview to the Press, is, if possible, more suavely...
...Hull is the same flawless actor he was in the stage version of "Grand Hotel." Every gesture is expressive, every look, significant. He is as much of a born actor, and arch rogue as John Barrymore. He carries off the part of the dilletante bachelor as well as Alfred Lunt were the uniform of the exiled Prince Rudolph Maximillian Von Hapsburg. But "Springtime for Henry" lacks the gay flavor and dramatic excitement that made "Reunion in Vienna" one of the most popular of the Guild offerings in the last two years...