Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to reports from Chungking last week, Chinese secret-service operatives trailed a Japanese woman, with the blood of Manchu princes flowing in her veins, from Hong Kong, where she directed the activities of 370 Japanese spies in South China, to Tientsin. There, fortnight ago, they shot her dead. If this report of the death of Yoshimiko Kawashima was reliable (the Japanese promptly declared she was merely wounded, later rescued), an end was put to the career of one of Japan's ablest woman spies...
...machine's possible sound combinations are so various that Voder can imitate the inflections, overtones and shading of human diction. By altering pitch it can change from a man's voice to a woman's or a child's. It can mimic animal sounds, locomotive whistles, the noise of an airplane engine...
...Gentle People (by Irwin Shaw; produced by The Group Theatre). Usually propaganda plays are grim, clenched, bellicose. But the social message of Irwin Shaw's "Brooklyn fable" is as softly conveyed as a woman's "Yes." The Gentle People is the story of two benevolent middle-aged cronies down Coney Island way who love to fish of an evening. A tough young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor...
...into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
...story deals with the private life of Victoria the woman rather than with the public acts of Victoria the Queen; it consists of ten scenes showing her as the young girl, the possessive wife, and the bereaved widow. Notable is the fact that, although many of the greatest personages of the period pass in review, save for the characters of Prince Albert and Victoria herself, few of them appear on the stage for more than a single scene; yet their contribution to the leading roles is invaluable and their impression on the audience lasting...