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...play simply means predicament. The predicament herein set forth is that of an elderly gentleman (Lionel At-will) who tries to save his son from the consequences of murder by confessing to the crime himself. The victim in the case is the son's handsome blonde mistress (Greta Nissen). In court, circumstantial evidence has nearly convicted the father when a new witness appears. This is a mild mannered Cockney whose presence at the scene of the killing no one had suspected. His testimony clears father and son and indicates that the taking off of Miss Nissen was less deplorable...
...rude comments at each other, while making things difficult for the heroine who associates with them in order to learn about her husband's extra-marital amusements. She (Linda Watkins) sub-leases the apartment which her husband has provided for his mistress. While he and the mistress (Greta Nissen) are abroad, she falls in love with a sober-sided young mining tycoon. When her husband comes home, she decides after a brief period of reluctance to go to California. The mining man (John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough...
...play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker...
...summary: DARTMOUTH '34 HARVARD '34 Powers, Crowther, l.w. r.w., Kirkland, J. Ware, Black Spain, Rolfe, c. c., Beale, Summere Arthur, Vail, r.w. l.w., Gallagher, N. Ware, Black Bennet, Nissen, l.d. r.d., Martin, Choate Morton, Nissen, r.d. l.d., Gleason, Choate McHugh, Neil, g. g., deGive, C. E. Ware...
...Belgian Octave Dua already known in Chicago; Oscar Colcaire, naive of Lexington, Ky., onetime first violinist in the Cincinnati symphony; Paul Althouse, of Reading, Pa., for ten years with the Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence. New baritones: Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...