Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Artists). Ronald Colman is the cinemactor who exemplifies romantic savoir faire. His admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...
...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...
...Hartford?and her son George Huntington II got in the news last week. In Boston, a Miss Mildred King, pretty blonde, sued Mrs. Hartford for $100,000. Miss King said that she had been asked to woo George Huntington II, a Harvard sophomore, away from an unnamed Manhattan siren with whom he had become infatuated. In return, Miss King said that Mrs. Hartford had promised to make a settlement on her or adopt her. Miss King said she had fulfilled her part of the bargain. Mrs. Hartford had not. Mrs. Hartford made no public comment...
Tick-tick-tick 132 minutes passed. Precisely at two minutes past high noon Her Imperial Majesty was delivered of an infant 49 centimetres (1.6 ft.) long and weighing 3,365 grams (7.4 lb.). The municipal siren of Tokyo screeched, the National Radiocasting System went into action, the Official Gazette got out one of its exceedingly rare "extras...
...Nassau blew her siren. Police boats and a tug swarmed around. Ropes and advice were thrown to the swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island...