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Presently, there appeared, from England, not a duke or count but plain Frederick George Cuthbert William Smythe, of the Smokeless Coal Smythes, who was determined to woo & win Alice, partly for her looks and partly for her $20 million which would help stabilize the shaky family business. After announcing: "I'll catch my little filly, I'll tame her, willy nilly, right round the neck I'll noose her and nevermore will loose her," he got a job as Alice's private secretary. For an act or so, Alice dodged his lasso. Then, in the second...
...first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...
...same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against her will, while her real lover waits next door. He is tricked into releasing her, and receives a beating and almost a fate worse than death--from his standpoint--for his pains in chasing the second woman. It's not too difficult a plot...
Divorced. Hugh ("Woo-Woo") Herbert, 60, flutter-fingered cinema comic; by Rose Herbert, 56, onetime vaudeville actress; after 28 years of marriage, no children; in Fort Worth...
...Woo Weeks. The Department of Commerce brought out a calendar solemnly listing the "Special Days, Weeks and Months in 1949," with which U.S. admen will woo consumers this year. From "Idaho Potato & Onion Week," which growers are plugging this week, through "Woo Woo-National Sweater Week" starting Sept. 26, there will hardly be a letup. The week of April 1, said the department with tongue-in-cheek, will be known as "National Leave Us Alone Week...