Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woman Alone (Gaumont British). Sylvia Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) is unaware that her stolid, bear-faced husband (Oscar Homolka), proprietor of a London cinemansion, is the hireling of a gang of terrorists. While she tends her little brother Stevie, Verloc douses all the lights of London by sabotaging the generators. Next he is ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown...
Adapted from famed Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, The Woman Alone was made by the producers of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Seven Sinners, lacks their top-notch quality...
...works and well-gowned, flashing-eyed and well-preserved as she is at 46, is no longer the sole, monopolizing evangelist of California's poor in spirit. A plague of quarrels and lawsuits has rained upon her the year past, with her onetime lawyer, her one-time publicity woman, her onetime business manager, her daughter Roberta, her "Ma," Mrs. Kennedy, and finally with the equally flashing-eyed woman whom she hired as associate nearly four years ago, Mrs. Rheba Crawford ("Angel of Broadway") Splivalo (TIME...
Second only to William Randolph Hearst for his personal scoop of King Edward's determination to marry the Woman of the Year (TIME, Nov. 2), in the journalistic history of the great Simpson Story the name of Newbold Noyes ranked high for his intimate reports of his visit to Fort Belvedere ten days before the abdication (TIME, Dec. 28). Rare authenticity attached to this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson...
...stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond Pinchot as Bathsheba, Catherine Carrington as Ruth made themselves recognizable among the mobs of fellow-actors. Heard of but not recognized by many was pretty Florence Meyer, Backer Meyer's daughter, as an Egyptian princess, a fiend, a depraved woman...