Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play the violin, encouraged his taste for writing and directing plays which he and his small friends acted in a granary. Early in the War, Boyer, at 15, ran an amateur company to entertain soldiers. On his visit to Hollywood in 1932, he played a chauffeur in Red-headed Woman, bit parts with Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert. After building up his prestige abroad, he returned last year, made Caravan, went home again because he considered the next rôle offered him unworthy of his talents...
...dealt with women who were eager but inexperienced. Nucleus of her organization was a small group of nine young players who wanted her advice last autumn for a radio program. Their talent impressed her. She visualized a big ladies' band that would be known as the New York Woman's Symphony Orchestra. With her dark eyes alight she went out on a hunt for more musicians, marched on the White House where she persuaded the President's wife to head her list of sponsors...
...learned determination when she was Wilhelmina Wolthus and washed clothes and scrubbed floors to work her way through the University of California. When she decided to be a conductor she went straight to Karl Muck in Bayreuth, persuaded him to take her for a pupil. When she assembled her woman's orchestra she knew very well that her problem would be to find players for the winds. Finally 25 were recruited, all so earnest that they were oblivious to the fact that women look even funnier than men when blowing...
...weak from malnutrition that sometimes she can hardly walk, plods ten miles to Wrens to beg a little food. Son, 21, also suffering from undernourishment, has had twelve days relief work since Christmas at $1.20 a day. This family shares its two rag-covered, rickety beds with a young woman who had nowhere else to turn. When the reporters called, not a scrap of food was in the house. All they ever have is cornbread; the meal barrel was empty...
...Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other member of the menage, a parachute jumper, is really the father. None of them knows, and none- except the boy, who violently resents being reminded...