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...cudgel the brains in his bald head for a new publicity dodge to draw the attention of tourists to Japan. Last week foreign editors were printing new pictures of the Japanese Minister of Railways. Reason: Mr. Uchida had had himself snapped putting a jujitsu headlock on blonde Mrs. Sarah Mayer, wife of a British Army officer in Japan...
Naughty Marietta (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Victor Herbert's 25-year-old operetta, revived as the vehicle for the first important cinema performance of Baritone Nelson Eddy. It concerns a French Princess who, to avoid a manage de convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying...
...income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes for 15 years-should also build $10,000,000 worth of cinema studios by popular subscription, rent them to cinema companies for $250,000 a year. Producer Schenck explained his extraordinary plan...
Vanessa: Her Love Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), adapted by Hugh Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down...
After Office Hours (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When she enters the combined boathouse, garage, workshop, countryseat and rendezvous maintained by the villain of this picture, Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett) is favorably impressed. She casts a glance at her surroundings and says to her host: "Nice, nice, nice...