Word: valeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...star is to be singled out for excellence of characterization, that honor goes to Charles Laughton. The others play more or less stereotyped roles, but Laughton's excellent acting adds greatly to his fame as a versatile and capable actor. As the English valet who leaves the service of an English earl, Roland Young, to become the manservant of the American, Charles Ruggles, he is convincing and often amusing. His adventures in America and the slow transition these effect upon his character and personality comprise the plot of the story. For once he is not the villain, but the hero...
...Valet MacDuffy packed his bags, but President Roosevelt had plenty of things to do and people to see before leaving Washington last week for his inspection of the Tennessee Valley Authority and his annual autumn vacation in Georgia. When they were all done and seen he put on a powder-blue suit, drove to the Union Station, boarded his special train...
...including a huge Austrian-ware receptacle decorated with a lavender, red and green battle scene ($250), stood in every room. Lumberman Long had few pictures, none by famed artists, but liked bibelots like his small ivory goose ($2.25). Gongs announced dinner even when Mr. Long was alone and his valet played the organ while he sat on Aubusson-tapestried chairs, ate from English china, drank from hand-cut crystal goblets (sold for $280). At large dinners, a silver tankard more than two feet high ($135) decorated the table. A sufferer from asthma, Mr. Long had a mahogany stand on which...
...elegant genuflections or swift bright patter of Fred Astaire who, next to Bill Robinson the most nimble-footed hoofer on the U. S. stage, is rapidly developing into a first-class cinema come dian. Good shot: Astaire putting on his tie, coat and hat thrown to him by his valet as he sings, tap-dances about the room...
Victor, the Russian valet, stepped back and proudly regarded his handiwork: Sergei Koussevitzky, the best-dressed man in Boston, imposing in cutaway and flowing black cravat. On Symphony Hall stage the players tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world...