Word: blandished
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...husband coming upon his wife in another's arms. In this case old Sir Jasper Fidget is the cuckold and his remark, greeted with wild laughter from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed tarts, icecream sodas, Clos-Vougeot, Marcel Proust, Groucho Marx, alley cats, French poodles...
...horses to her because she was the last person he saw, Velvet knew that her star was due to rise. How it rose, and to what heights, Au thor Bagnold should be left alone to tell. The Author. Many a Manhattan playgoer remembers the delightfully improbable Serena Blandish (1929) ; it was taken from the novel of the same name written (but not acknowledged) by Enid Bagnold. Author of only four acknowledged books (a war diary, poems, a child's book, a novel), Author Bagnold has an English reputation that might surprise those who have never read her. A beauty...
...cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...
...almost entirely froufrou, the impression of the evening's entertainment is that both pieces are very slight and very stagy. But they are also very pleasant. The curtain-raiser, The Violet, is concerned with the trials of a theatrical casting director who becomes weary of the blandishments and caresses which shameless young women, seeking employment, lavish upon him. Changing places with his composer, he is astonished to find that Ilona Stobri (Ruth Gordon) is attracted to him rather than to the one whom she believes is the director. She gets the job. To Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday...
...striking suggestion was that of Constance Collier, 52, big, throaty English actress (The Firebrand, Our Betters, Serena Blandish, The Matriarch). Like many another talented person, notably Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin (now retired), Miss Collier suffers when dogs suffer.* Suggested she last week: "If vivisection is so necessary, why not experiment upon persons who break the laws instead of upon animals...