Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comedian Nat Good win, she became a star in 1903. When Ethel Barrymore met her in 1903, she exclaimed: "The Venus de Milo - with arms!" Maxine Elliott toured the U. S.. Australia, and England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan's Maxine Elliott Theatre, went to live at Cannes. To Manhattan newshawks who tried to coax her to reminisce about her career, she roundly replied: "There's no good talking...
...Right to Romance (RKO). The problem child of RKO, Ann Harding, appears always in pictures which take the pulse of such throbbing questions as the double standard, woman's place in the home or how much a girl should tell her fiancé. This time she is a celebrated facial surgeon, successful in her profession but harassed by longings for Romance. She marries a playboy (Robert Young) whose chief interests are listening to football games on the radio and looping-the-loop, only to discover her mistake in time to patch up after an airplane crash the face...
...amazing that an intelligent church woman can be taken in by it.... The whole atmosphere of their church life will be cheapened and commercialized by their participation in it. ... The Christian church has its own dreams, and it will not prejudice their realization ... on behalf of the acquisitive dreams of any private interest whatsoever...
Inconsolable was Louise Turck Stanton, a slight, dark-haired woman of 32. She had her husband's casket brought to the Turck home where they had spent their one year of married life. She slept beside it on a daybed in the reception hall. After the funeral she resumed her flying which two years before had led to her romance with Gordon Stanton at the municipal airport...
Though Author Arnold Zweig is writing a tetralogy of War and Peace (already published: The Case of Sergeant Grischa, Young Woman of 1914), De Vriendt Goes Home is not a part of it. Based on the Palestine disturbance of 1929, this book is no brief for or against Zionism, the Arabs or the British mandate. Author Zweig, a Jew, writes not as a Zionist or an Agudist. His chief characters are of different races, different creeds. A good novelist, he never takes sides, and there is no villain in the book. Scene of De Vriendt Goes Home is narrower than...