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...entrance, staring gloomily at the trickles draining into his culvert home. Ottilie was housekeeping inside the culvert. Suddenly a wall of water appeared coming fast down a drainage trench. It roared past George, swept up Ottilie, smashed her against a curve in the culvert, carried her on to the screen at the culvert's end. Police found her body, every bone broken. Said George: "I've wept so much in two years I have no tears left...
...first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed, who symbolizes Princetonian youth. Accent on youth suffers less than most light pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs him, as a playmaker, to devise a dramatic way for him to express his passion for Miss Sidney...
...Escapade. Luise Rainer was popped into the part so hurriedly that M-G-M did not even have time to think up an intelligent publicity campaign. First described thoughtlessly as a rival to MGM's Greta Garbo, whom she resembles less than anyone else on the screen, Luise Rainer was next advertised as the private discovery of William Powell, because he was generous enough, when the picture was completed, to recommend her for co-star billing. A student of archeology, sculpture and the ballet, Miss Rainer lives in Santa Monica...
...comrade. This Sir Bedivere of the Bronx finishes training school with characteristic verve, just in time to help Uncle Sam grapple with a middlewestern crime wave. Chicago becomes a hades of riddled corpses, black Cadillac touring cars, and sub-machine guns. Other federal men, perhaps less gullible than the screen loving public, express their amazement to find that Cagney grew up in New York side-by-side with most of the first ten public enemies, and that he knows where they carry their guns. It is then a comparatively simple matter to get one of Cagney's former sweethearts...
...friars sang. But not a person in the jubilee throng laid eyes on the Reverend Mother Mary Seraphim. Poor Clares are strictly cloistered. Clad in a rough, grey robe and cloth sandals, that 73-year-old Irish-born nun heard the celebration in her honor from behind a screen...