Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Morcom's idea of a Fourteenth Century castle looks like a clapboarded New England barn, and his revolving set often does not fit the scene, sequences. Millia Davenport's costumes never get beyond the phony chain-mail stage, and her costume for Hotspur's wife in the first act is one of the most atrocious bits of ugly design to appear for some time...
Shortly after one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Shreck heard her 36-year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled...
Said dogged Shreck. "I just kept going." Said his wife: "It's wonderful." Said an airport friend of the flying weatherman, as a sort of explanation for Pilot Shreck's escape rather than a comment on his fix: "He never drinks or smokes...
Engaged. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, ex-wife of three, author of Ex-Wife; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent and ex-husband of two; in Manhattan...
...plot and become real, credible characters. They are Joan Crawford, nightclub dancer, who marries Melvyn Douglas, a member of the rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding is the script, which brightens what might have been a dull problem drama; and the acting, especially of Miss Sullavan and Miss Bainter, is uniformly good. The whole is an engrossing story of real people, with development of character as well...