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Terrorist Codreanu once envisioned an Italianate setup, with Carol as King and himself as Führer. But his outspoken criticism of Mme Lupescu, alienated him from royal favor. Last April, when the great plot to dethrone Carol was revealed, 1,500 of his followers were arrested and M. Codreanu, with the little bag of Rumania's "sacred soil" that all Iron Guardsmen wore under their green shirts, went finally to jail...
...unshakable logic of this plot has recommended it to producers: it appears, not once, but twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...
...Brown, dramatic critic of the New York Post, will teach "Playwriting," discussing the essentials of plot, dialogue, characterization, action, and climax, as well as the forms of tragedy and comedy. He will also give a course on the "History of the Modern Theatre...
...plot is strictly utilitarian. On a Swedish country estate, where he is stranded when his plane crashes, Paderewski unites two estranged lovers by the "miracle" of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Barbara Greene, Marie Tempest, and Charles Farrell do very well in their distinctly subsidiary parts. The picture is well worth the time for anyone at all interested in music...
...plot of I Married An Angel has to do with Count Willy Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one (Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of trouble with the groom's friends and depositors...