Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good play is rarely so constructed that one character monopolizes audience attention. When an actress reaches Miss Cornell's stature, however, her public demands that she appear in starring vehicles. Among the best known of Miss Cornell's earlier plays are such bravura works as The Green Hat (1925), The Letter (1927), Dishonored Lady (1930). Few critics considered these or The Barretts of Wimpoh Street (1931) or Lucrece (1932) mon than a theatrical frame for Miss Cornell's great acting ability. Candida, St. Joan Romeo and Juliet, regardless of their merits, are not strictly Miss Cornell...
With the Viscountess was the general manager of her weekly magazine Time & Tide (no kin), Miss D. S. Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell and Novelist Rebecca West, Dramatist Sean O'Casey. "In England people have stopped reading Punch in favor of the New Yorker," said the publisher Viscountess, "and most intelligent English people read TIME every week, even though during recent months large sections have often been clipped...
Champagne Waltz (Paramount). The perennial and expensive effort to make a Grace Moore out of Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone...
With an appealing tremble of her lower jaw, Miss Swarthout, smartly dressed, sings several songs. None of them is notable. Whatever merits Champagne Waltz possesses are dependent on the well-seasoned comic abilities of Jack Oakie, cast as Happy Gallagher, manager of the band. Badly befuddled by the ways of Europeans, Gallagher wanders through elaborate settings making remarks like "60 feet away you can't tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann...
Among the most valued paintings received was the "Visitation" by El Greco, one of the most unusual examples of this artist's works, the gift of an anonymous donor. To the collection of Florentine paintings three 14th century canvases were added by Miss Margaret Whitney, of Milbrook, N. Y. the water color collection was increased by a large group painted by Dr. Denman W. Ross and some of his pupils, and by a late work of Winslow Homer...