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...Barrymore trying, at a dinner party, to cut a rubber squab which squirts out gravy and squeaks, is more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives at the wrong house for dinner and is mistaken for a hired guest whom the hostess has ordered from an agency. The dialog is witty, and Barrymore, hiccupping slightly, plays through one lunatic scene after another...
Majestic "Song O' My Heart". Mostly John McCormack, although there is some pretense at a plot...
Land for the new building was purchased in April, 1929, and it was expected that construction would begin last September. The site, which has been definitely picked, is the plot of ground across Divinity Avenue from the museum, a little to the east of Divinity Hall and the Semitic Museum. It is expected that the structure will be in the shape of an "L", projecting between the two latter buildings...
...these left without at least two prizes for his employer.* Outstanding among the gardeners was Miss Marie L. Constable's able, bushy-mustached James Stuart. He it was who arranged, on a plot of approximately 600 sq. ft., Miss Constable's breathtaking Yellow Garden which won the large silver cup presented by the Royal Horticultural Society. Pale ferns, towering yellow acacias and mimosas hung over a narrow path, accented with deep orange clumps of a kind of South African flowering pineapple, professionally known as imantophyllum, more popularly Clivia...
...Strange Case of District Attorney M (German). While this was being made in Germany, a much more effective picture with exactly the same plot-Her Private Affair-was released in the U. S. In the imported version, Marie Jacobeni plays the part of the state prosecutor's wife who has murdered her blackmailing onetime lover. Miss Jacobeni, who looks a lot like Bebe Daniels, is fairly competent, but not enough of a genius to make credible or even intelligible the artificial story, jerkily presented and badly photographed. Typical shot: the murderess coming back to her box at the opera...