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...Hollywood, the wife of oldtime Film Actor Bryant Washburn, exasperated because he had brought a friend, one J. Demiteis, home with him early in the morning, picked up a French telephone, banged it down on the pate of J. Demiteis. Summoned by frightened neighbors, police found her screaming: "I've just killed a man!", found J. Demiteis alive but dizzy...
Dual impersonation in the cinema is such an old and obvious trick that it usually makes for implausibility unless the actor who attempts it is skillful enough to give the two characters definite and different personalities. Ronald Colman succeeds in doing so, most brilliantly when, as Loder, he is imitating Chilcote's mannerisms just badly enough to make the audience feel that it is an imitation and just well enough to make the audience feel that the imitation might have fooled Chilcote's intimates. Typical situation: Loder. "making mistakes in wives," chatting with Mrs. Chilcote in the hope...
Dinner at Eight (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). An aging film actor, planning to recoup his fortunes on the stage; Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, just over from London and on their way to Florida; a thick-skinned tycoon named Dan Packard and his Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags...
Foremost among the TIME actors are William Adams who speaks as two Presidents. Roosevelt and von Hindenburg, Jack Smart who speaks as Huey Long; Ted de Corsia who does Mussolini and Herbert Hoover. Alfred Shirley is three British subjects, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales and Mahatma Gandhi. Marian Hopkinson is Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hitler; Porter Hall, Stalin. Barbara Bruce is Frances Perkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt (the President's mother). Remains to be seen whether Pedro de Cordoba (ex-King Alfonso of Spain), John Battle (Vice President Garner) and Charles Slattery (Al Smith) will...
...daughter, Gabriel, became his inamorata. When she fell in love, Julius, a lonely old man tasting the futility that in most aphorisms is indelibly associated with using selfish methods to become a millionaire, crept off to Paris to die. Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier writes with a great deal more solemnity and a good deal less charm than her grandfather, but she has aptitude and intelligence. The Progress of Julius, her third novel, is a florid 325-page portrait polished off with workmanlike aplomb...