Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yokohama, famed blind & deaf Helen Adams Keller debarked with her secretary Peggy Thompson amid thunderous cheers to begin a Japanese lecture tour during which she was to be received by Emperor Hirohito. Newspapers greeted her as "the American miracle woman," and she cried to the welcoming crowd in Japanese: "Hail, beautiful Japan! I have received a most wonderful greeting which has strengthened me. I shall bear myself with strength forever." Few minutes later a pickpocket stole her purse containing $60. Next day an anonymous Japanese vindicated his country's honor by leaving $60 at Miss Keller's hotel...
...Woman I Love (RKO). Lieutenant Jean Herbillion (Louis Hayward), the night before he goes to join his escadrille, falls in love with a handsome Parisienne (Miriam Hopkins) who tells him her name is Denise. At the front, he becomes the close friend and plane-mate of a moody pilot named Lieutenant Claude Maury (Paul Muni). When Herbillion goes on leave, Maury gives him a note for his wife, Hélène Maury. Hélène and Denise turn out to be the same person. The triangle is straightened out when, back at the front, Herbillion gets...
...like a society farce, develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...
...CLUE OF THE SILVER CELLAR-Miles Burton-CrimeClub ($2). Ingenious investigation of the disappearance of an unpleasant woman whose body could not be found. Good detective work but rather slow and plodding in parts...
...Edward Windsor, he promises to be as duty-bound and soundly virtuous as George V, one of whose homely maxims was "Teach me never to cry for the moon nor over split milk." Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition, ought more than ever to make the public conscious of the monarchy's power...