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...chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house to house for extra supplies. The little inn's solitary waiter nearly died of stage fright...
...JAMAICA INN-Daphne du Maurier- Doubleday Dor an ($2.50). The granddaughter of Trilby's author tells the tale of a hard-headed young woman who becomes involved in a series of hair-raising crimes on the British moors of a hundred years...
...stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo...
...cross along the road, where he fixes her car; again at the border, where she slips the pearls into his pocket to get past the customs inspectors; once more in Madrid, where she joins her oily confederate (John Halliday). When the three are sequestered together in an Andalusian mountain inn, the flirtation between Bradley and Madeleine suddenly ripens into something else, something which Director Frank Borzage contrives to convey in scenes which are at once gay, delicate and, in view of the cinema's attitude toward such matters since the Legion of Decency started to operate in 1934, sensationally...
...villainous father wanted to sell her to Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake unexpectedly advanced his suit with his first love, O Kaya San. Soon they were living together. When Grier went back to England, because it was "necessary." he was better able to judge the depth of Japanese emotions...