Word: adventuresses
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...Angeles Humane Department announced that unless help came soon the animals would be mercifully killed in lethal gas chambers. At that, money began to pour in. Actors Katharine Hepburn, Richard Dix, Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought...
...story that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture's coloring guarantee it the box-office success it would not receive had it been produced in the customary black and white. Technicolor is both the strength and weakness of the "Garden...
...story in which Miss Durbin and her two sisters (in the film) figure is not unusual, but the clever way it is juggled and tossed to the audience disguises its age. Learning that their father is chasing and being chased by a blonde adventuress (Binnre Barnes) in New York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while...
...following Theodora to Lynnfield was to show her that she was inhibited. Having followed Grant to New York, Theodora made it her business to show Grant that he was in the same predicament, only more so. She moved into his apartment, scandalized his family by behaving like an adventuress, contrived to become corespondent in not one divorce suit but two. By this time, Grant's repressions were as thoroughly shattered as her own and the secret of Caroline Adams identity had made red-ink headlines in the Lynnfield Bugle. When Theodora returned there, she found Grant and a brass...
...pleasantly surprising, perhaps, is to see Marlene's ability with comedy. She no longer stoops to conquer with her legs, but none the less her dignity in this picture is dropped from the grand tragedienne level. Comedy is throughout the sustaining force. From the point at the beginning where Adventuress Dietrich bumps together the heads of a jeweller and a psychiatrist, in order to get away with a gorgeous string of stolen pearls, to the point at the end where those same two dupes are joyful witnesses at the wedding, the atmosphere is charged with worldly, debonair mirth...