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...rubber of bridge. And many Eskimos play rather well, too. At Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player; he is also a good shot, a fine musher, and Canada's famed, revered ''Arctic Bishop." He was going...
...vehicle, he is likely to pick something insignificant, to be sure that the merits of his performance outweigh the rest of the entertainment. When two celebrated actors select a vehicle, they are likely to have a hard time finding one which will suit this requirement for both of them. Arsene Lupin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) can therefore be considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief...
...different sort of buck. He raises one eyebrow, wears a white tie, jokes politely with a lady (Karen Morley) whom he finds naked in his bed, and carries the proud name of the Duke of Charmerace. Guerchard rather suspects, when the picture begins, that the Duke of Charmerace is Arsene Lupin. However, when he goes to a ball at the Charmerace establishment in Paris, he finds that Charmerace suspects him of the same thing. Moreover, his likeliest spy, after climbing into the Charmerace bed without her clothes, not only makes friends with Charmerace but falls in love with him. This...
Anyone who pays 25? to see the plot of Arsene Lupin, derived from the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis de Croisset, or to hear the dialog written for it by Bayard Veiller and Lenore Coffee, would have a right to feel disappointed, if not duped. But no one should make such a mistake. The pleasure of seeing this Arsene Lupin consists entirely in seeing both Barrymore brothers at the same time. Theatre-goers enjoyed this privilege in 1919, when both were cabined in the narrow dungeons of The Jest, but they are not likely to enjoy it again...
Leon Gordon, author of White Cargo, onetime actor in Brewster's Millions, Arsene Lupin, Raffles, was severely injured in an automobile accident in Sidney, Australia...