Word: woos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legally a man may marry only one woman but a corporation may marry as many other corporations as it can woo and win. The procedure in both cases is the same?soft words, moonlight, tentative kisses, polite talk of money. Last week the automobile industry knew that a number of companies were out holding hands in the moonlight but whether it was just a casual flirtation or a real engagement which would end in corporate wedlock no one could yet be sure...
...School for Husbands (by Jean Bkaptiste Poquelin [Moliére]; Theatre Guild, producer). Of the Moliére play, the Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
...hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame the boy for the gunmen's jailbreak, 4) to disguise the fact that he is the sinister "Blight," the power behind the illicit drug traffic. To advance objective No. 1 he forces the young people's friend, a middle-aged keeper in the Tombs...
Well aware that silk could make a permanent comeback only by regaining its market, spry Gosuke Imai as president of the Japan Filatures Association decided to forget his years, to woo America in the name of silk. With seven fellow ambassadors he landed at San Francisco four weeks ago. All were clad from head to foot in silk-silk suits, silk shirts, silk shorts, silk socks, silk everything save shoes. Their chief object was to persuade U. S. males to wear suits of heavy silk, rlbbed weaves, diagonals, failles (which at present prices could be made...
Britain long ago tried public works for relief, stopped them as a costly failure. Last week when the U. S. delegation to the London Conference tried to woo Britain back to such a program on an international basis, Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade firmly declared: "This method of dealing with the problem is unduly expensive and an experiment we are not going to repeat. . . . We have come to the conclusion that schemes of this kind are most unremunerative...