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...friendly abstainers, all Deputies of the militant Right, were led by former Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Last week M. Tardieu turned up for the opening of the Chamber without his usual mustache and wearing horn-rimmed Harold Lloyd lunettes. Correspondents reported that L'Americain "looked more like an American than ever."* The reason pugnacious M. Tardieu & friends of the Right abstained from voting against M. Herriot & friends of the Left was because they interpreted his "plan" as a direct thrust at Germany...
...unlike those of the U. S. police, form a pleasantly lurid fable in which the Paris gendarmery is faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions...
...head fell into a basket, that the body was dumped into a zinc-lined wicker coffin (in which the head was later placed) for delivery to pregnant Mme Gorgulov, that Executioner Anatole ("Monsieur de Paris") Deibler wore his usual derby hat and was assisted by his son-in-law André Perrier who is being groomed to succeed M. Deibler as the next "Monsieur de Paris...
Goona-Goona (Independent) is the first cinema taken in the island of Bali in the Malay Archipelago. Producer André Roosevelt (distant cousin) and his son-in-law Armand Denis privately showed a first version three years ago in Manhattan. They have revised and cut it, added a new beginning. They still deserve credit as the discoverers of Bali, despite Charles Trego's lovelier Isle of Paradise (TIME, Sept. 12). Goona-Goona was shown at the French Colonial Exposition in Paris, rushed out of storage following the success of Isle of Paradise...
...little heroine Dasnee is charming, but with the other female actors she finds it hard to keep from laughing at the melodramatic faces she is asked to make by her good friend André Roosevelt. The male actors are quite serious. The story is practically impossible in modern Bali. The Balinese code allows a girl to be as promiscuous before marriage as she likes...