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...feature on the program, "Enter Madame," Elissa Landi is starred as the temperamental opera singer in a rather uninteresting plot. It's the old story of career versus love affair, in which Cary Grant, her husband, finally tires of the hysterical eccentricity of his artist wife. Everything turns out happily in the end, of course, when the wife discovers the cause of the trouble and forestalls a divorce though a change of attitude...
Folies Bergere de Paris (Twentieth Century). Believing that the title, plot and star of this picture would make it especially acceptable to French audiences, Producer Darryl Zanuck did more than "dub in" French dialog. Folies Bergere was made twice, once in English, once in French. The French version of each scene was made immediately after the English one, on the same set. Maurice Chevalier is the only performer who appears in both versions. The French one, in which the leading lady is Princess Paley, includes a tableau of nude models, jokes which would alarm the Legion of Decency...
...York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland. He had to content himself with taking two of the boss spy's poor little stoogettes, chopping off their heads. . . . This barbarity seems to indicate that Hitler has become...
...self-confidence sat down in the reading room of the British Museum to write his first play. He called it Widowers' Houses. George Bernard Shaw had already met with indifferent success as an orator, fictionist and Fabian Society member when Dramacritic William Archer presented him with a skeleton plot and persuaded him to turn his talents toward the theatre. It was not long before Shaw was back with the news that he needed more plot, having used up all Archer had given him before he was halfway through the first...
...fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this amusing dramatic puffball...