Word: sweethearted
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...Bruce Blakeley (Harvey Stephens) to support and abet his trying tribe. When his business blessedly fails, he evokes not their sympathy but their ungrateful scorn. Whereupon he does what he has been trying to do all the time, marries his divorcée sweetheart (Katherine Alexander, no kin to Ross), rids himself of his family responsibilities. The party, he tells them in a forceful farewell address, is over...
Last act of Three-Cornered Moon is even more erratic than the first two. The brother passes his examination. The novelist is dismissed. While lunatic panic sweeps through the house Elizabeth and her businesslike sweetheart settle themselves on the stairway for a little lovemaking. It is 6 a. m. Mother Rimplegar wistfully wanders in mending...
Many a catchy tune exported from Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...
This winter smart Londoners danced to "What More Can I Ask?", a Ray Noble tune even smoother and more insinuating than the overworked "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Ray Noble and his orchestra have made a record of it, letting fiddles and saxophones carry the melody against an elaborate syncopation. Leslie Hutchinson, a Negro whose records are a rage in London, sings the same song to his own free & easy piano accompaniment...
...first contingent of radio crooners pounced on "Goodnight, Sweetheart," quickly wore it out. Irving Berlin's "Say It Isn't So" is another instance of a song quickly done to death by radio. Last autumn it was played on an average of 100 times a day. The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers kept count...