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...like to work." Convention City (First National) is a glib, disorganized batch of footnotes on a familiar aspect of U. S. business. It deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President J. B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President...
...Miss Hepburn's "Ada Lovelace" does not follow the crudities of the old pattern. She is, and believably, intelligent yet naive, talented yet over-ambitious. The smooth gentleman of the tragedy (Adolphe Menjou) is no villain, but a great producer and an excellent fellow whose large acquaintance with chorus-girls has made him a poor judge of Eva's infatuation. It is all very natural: no heroics, no shot-guns are in order. The situation is restrained and therefore really moving...
Divorced. Adolphe Menjou, cinemactor ; by his third wife, Kathryn Carver Menjou, cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (fits of rage, profanity...
...adroitly that only someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant Frederic Henry meets Nurse Catherine Barkley outside a brothel when so befuddled that he mistakes her for one of its inmates. His friend Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), in the capacity of censor, returns unopened Nurse Barkley's letters to her lover when he is on the Italian front and when she is in Switzer land waiting to have a baby. Cinema's ethical code had in this case the effect of prompting the ingenuity of Scenarists Glazer...
...Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandière Marion Davies...