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...your issue of Aug. 23 reviewing "Souls at Sea," your critic said Olympe Bradna was "picturesquely born of two bareback riders between performances at the Olympe Theatre in Paris...
...Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had chosen for the coup d'etat that made him Napoleon III, so the novel was lost in the political shuffle. In their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Renan, Taine-who used to meet fortnightly to dine well, talk how they liked. On one of these occasions, Gautier rebuked...
...Wayne (Jessie Matthews), assistant cinema critic on a Fleet Street paper, is assigned to cover the movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both...
Died. Clinton Lloyd Bardo, 69, onetime (1913-25) general manager of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, onetime (1928-34) president of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., onetime (1934-35) President of the National Association of Manufacturers, bombastic critic of the New Deal; after a paralytic stroke; in New York...
...Montgomery troupe danced neatly, made the little ballet often pathetic, often good for a laugh. Critic Edwin H. Schloss of the Record wisely rated the performance "a minor triumph." In the four years she has been dancing at the Dell, handsome Miss Montgomery has triumphed many times before. Her repertoire runs from Renaissance pavans and sarabands to formal, dignified Mozart, and striped, angular performances like the Study in Counter Rhythm for Dancers and Percussion Instruments which she put on at the Dell in 1934. In that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under...