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...when Smith shouted in oldtime style, "Now we'll go after them," the cheering, laughing crowd knew what to expect. They got it. Out of four years of bitterness came raucous, fist-smashing denunciations of bigotry and Ku-Kluxery, a long tirade against that almost forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein, it accomplished one thing for his party: claiming credit for the Democratic wet plank, he placed it squarely...
...that they were going to make the most of the two best ingenue parts in the Savoy Operas. Gilbert, in a particularly happy mood, made them two pert, attractive little baggages with minds of their own. Tessa and Gianetta steer a refreshing course, avoiding the Victorian doldrums (insipid Mabel, elfish Yum-Yum) and the Gilbertian caricatures (whining Ruth, tasteless Katisha). "When a Merry Maiden Marries" comes off with admirable airiness and grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging is reached...
...what he felt should be an immediate audience. "It was characteristic of him that he hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted...
...Woods, producer). Ten or 15 years ago, long before he played the muddled cinema director in Once In A Lifetime, Hugh O'Connell found steady employment in that cycle of dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room. Looking back on those days, it amuses Actor O'Connell to recall one trick of his that never failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just lay back and rest...
...house secluded from the rest of Hollywood in Benedict Canyon. He was noted not for his affaires with film actresses but for platonic friendships, apparently based on hypersensitive sympathy for the misfortunes of unhappy celebrities. When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood." Platonic friendships are even more suspect in Hollywood than elsewhere. Nevertheless Paul Bern's reputation as a kindly, disinterested bachelor was such that even chit-chat writers, who had been attentive to Jean Harlow...