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...last spring, John Barrymore sailed on a Caribbean cruise with Elaine Barrie, a 19-year-old "protegée"' who had changed her name from Jacobs to sound more like Barrymore. Later friends reported that he bought her a diamond ring, shopped with her for a bedroom set. Last week Actor Barrymore was still being sued for divorce when he stamped out of the Jacobs' Manhattan apartment, went into hiding. Said apartment clerks: "He was awful mad." Said Protegee Barrie's lawyer: "Mr. & Mrs. Jacobs feel a deep sympathy for Mr. Barrymore. . . . The glamorous episode is ended...
...that the orphan proves invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre...
...London, where the new company set about making pictures for Paramount and Gaumont-British release, Alexander Korda had a hard time until someone sent him a fat, pasty-faced young actor named Charles Laughton. To the derision of the whole British film industry, Producer Korda promptly cast Laughton as Henry VIII. He then persuaded United Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda...
...costumed melodrama of Mississippi riverboat life with Rogers as a steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog...
...episode like the one in which, caught by her admirer running up the steps of a business school where she contemplates taking a course, Alice archly explains that she was going in to hire a secretary for her father. As successful, in a much broader part, is oldtime Actor Fred Stone, making his first important cinema appearance as Alice's likeable, devoted father, puzzled and uneasy as he tries to conceal from himself the assurance which her unhappiness gives him that he has made a failure of his life. Minor performances by Fred MacMurray as Alice's young...