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...death last June the Curtis estate has reputedly refused to subsidize the Post's losses. They have fallen on the pocketbook of Stepson-in-law John Charles Martin who owns 51% of the Post's stock. Two months ago Publisher Martin sent his Man Friday, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., to New York to see what could be done. Last week Mr. Nason assumed temporary editorship of the Post, announced a drastic change in format, began cleaning house. First to go were Editor Julian Starkweather Mason and Managing Editor Ralph Renaud. The Post will be reduced from eight columns...
...seaside village where such Gaelic trifles properly begin, Paddy Adair (Janet Gaynor) is the younger daughter of an improvident Major (Walter Connolly), who has succeeded in arranging a betrothal between his eldest daughter Eileen (Margaret Lindsay) and handsome Larry Blake (Warner Baxter), who has a Rolls Royce and a yacht. When she learns that Eileen loves not Larry Blake, but a poor boy of the village named Jack Breen, Paddy does her loveable best to break the engagement. She snubs Blake, then flirts with him, finally tells him in plain terms why her sister is marrying him. All this...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...
Pretty, long-legged Lora Baxter is shrill, restless, self-centred and predatory as Tallulah Bankhead. When her part calls for acting, she rants and waves her arms as Miss Bankhead would never do, even at home. Most of the time Mrs. Campbell's flat face, truculent mouth and huge eyes dominate the proceedings with lines which may very well have been contributed by herself. A Party, scarcely a play, is based on the novel idea that some people who cannot, would like to go to a celebrity party. It succeeds in exploding the idea that such a party...
...Goodbye Again" is one long bedroom scene; buts its humor is not of the bedroom; and only once is either of the beds in the play made a vehicle of comedy. The humor of the play is like that; it is engrossing because Miss Baxter and Mr. Perkins are able, through force of personality, to overcome the self-consciousness of their public...