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Romance in the Dark (Paramount) is like most other attempts to hitch the Hollywood wagon to a grand opera star. Its heroine is brunette, oval-faced Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, prettiest and most adaptable of the cinema-minded opera singers. Most singing stars by this time walk blindfolded through the story of the girl who has to submit to subterfuge, disguise and heartache to get her chance. Miss Swarthout's version of this old story is pleasantly ingenuous. But with aging John Barrymore pitting his serrated profile against John Boles's open-mouthed full face in a battle...
Easily the prettiest scene in Washington last week was the annual White House Reception to the diplomatic corps, unofficial opening event of Washington's social season. Not all its prettiness, however, was in polychrome uniforms and effusions of gold braid...
...must continue its world leadership" in transoceanic aviation and 2) Mr. Lindbergh is technical adviser to Pan American Airways, which holds, on Government sufferance, a monopoly of the country's over-ocean flying. And it so happens that Pan American is currently the centre of one of the prettiest little storms that has swirled in Washington in many a moon...
...paint and is distinctly "arty," the program followed by II Duce-apart from a quick round of laying wreaths on Nazi shrines in Munich "The Capital of the Nazi Party and of Nazidom"-was loaded heavily with Kunst (Art). Under this head came 400 of Germany's prettiest stage and cinema actresses. At tea in the Museum of German Art, the Dictators kissed cinewomen's hands while they gushed, but Boxer Max Schmeling was also a guest and the German actresses seemed to prefer Schmeling...
Another new face was that of Pilot Henry T. ("Dick") Merrill, whose second two-way transatlantic flight earned him a Doctor of Aeronautical Science at Pennsylvania Military College (Chester). Prettiest new face was that of blonde Mary Lewis, a crack adwoman whose copy ("Buy American Cotton") for Manhattan's Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic...