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Kelth Boston--"Madame Spy". If you like original stories about ddvely female spys on the Eastern front who are torn between love and patriotism. The film is graced by Fay Wray, disgraced by Nils Asther...
...Europe was aflame. What happens to a beautiful Russian girl who sacrifices everything to serve her country in the only way she knew how and the cross-roads she comes to when love crosses her path forms the plot of the picture. The cast includes Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward, Arnold, Noah Beery, John Miljan, Vince Barnett and Rollo Lloyd...
...Candlelight (Universal). Viennese Prince Alfred von Rommer (Nils Asther) is a sleek seducer whose routine usually gets under way in the warm glow of two candelabra. This requires the assistance of his manservant Josef (Paul Lukas) who, when he hears his master playing "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" to a lady, knows it is time to cut off the lights, bring in the candelabra and apologize for a blown-out fuse. During such a scene with a handsome singer (Esther Ralston) an angry husband bangs his way in upon Prince Alfred's philanderings. When the singer escapes, the Prince...
...liquor in Paris. After his friend Hector Stribling (Henry Stephenson) introduces him to Sarah Casenove (Irene Dunne) his condition improves. Evers and Sarah go back to London where she opens an antique shop and he wins a case or two. Then more troubles set in. Sinister Tono Casenove (Nils Asther) appears to blackmail Sarah. Stingy Mrs. Evers (Lorraine MacLean) refuses to give Gordon a divorce. Gossip that threatens to undo Evers' legal practice makes Sarah Casenove think that she must desert him. To top it all, Evers, with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only...
...games on the radio and looping-the-loop, only to discover her mistake in time to patch up after an airplane crash the face of the girl her husband should have married (Sari Maritza). "I forgot that I was grown-up," says she to the patient young doctor (Nils Asther) who has been waiting until she found it out. Typical shot: Sari Maritza trying to empty a flask when she is upside down...