Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost certain were Federal agents that Nelson's woman companion had been his 21-year-old wife Helen. A one-time Chicago salesgirl, she has borne him a son aged 5, a daughter aged 4. Last week as a "no quarter" hunt was supposed to be closing in on Helen Nelson, her terror-stricken father appealed to her through the Press: "Give up rather than face Government bullets." But Federal Agents announced that they had already captured her the day after her husband's death...
...song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman as the cinema has produced in many a year...
...they are impressed by the lilting waltz themes, the glittering pageantry of oldtime Vienna. But Strauss's comedy, an authentic product of genius, offers more than buffoonery. The role of the Marschallin, sung by Lotte Lehmann, is as subtle a character as any in opera. Here is a woman both beautiful and middleaged. She must be dignified and she must also love a young man ecstatically - while around her whirls the laughter of low comedy...
...Anderson's justification for Elizabeth the Queen on this score is that the play was intended to describe the love difficulties of a young man and an old woman. Mary of Scotland's thesis was that history is written by the survivors. But, more than any other, the problem of government has been agitating Playwright Anderson ever since the U. S. entered its recent critical years. His attitude toward government is strictly anthropological: governments come and governments go, depending on the whims of the governed...
...PEEPSHOW?F. Tennyson Jesse ? Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Readers who know that Fryn Tennyson Jesse is a woman, the grandniece of the late Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a versatile author in her own right, will expect something unusual from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving life...