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...Bluebeard's Seven Wives. A genial prod in the ribs of the movies, made by the movies themselves, is a healthy sign. Movies have too many times taken themselves seriously. This one is played by Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, Blanche Sweet. The young man hops from a park bench to leading man and riches...
DOWN THERE?J. K. Huysmans? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). A sizzling, sulphuric translation of La Bas?the uttermost in demonology. With its pseudo-scientific basis of historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
...satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest of the non-stop record for making a movie star. Genevieve Tobin in the spotlight. LITTLE Miss BLUEBEARD-A concoction by Avery Hopwood in which Irene Bordoni plays with the sunny side of shady matrimony. Musical Shows...
Little Miss Bluebeard. It seems necessary simply to note that Avery Hopwood's signature is attached to this interlude and that Irene Bordoni emerges from musical comedy to play the lead. Anyone who has even a cursory acquaintance with matters theatrical will conclude correctly that it is a farce, that it deals in marital problems with an engaging indelicacy, that it smartly amusing. Added footnotes must contain the intelligence that Miss Bordoni sings four songs with her customary success; that Bruce McRae plays her leading man; that one Eric Blore, a recent acquisition from London, does the ultimate silliest...
...cararet for evicting him and against the barman for refusing to serve him with drinks. No sooner had the Prince's suit been filed than Maître Moro Giafferi, most famous of all French lawyers, offered his services to the Prince. Maître Giafferi defended Caillaux, Landru (the French Bluebeard) and Mme. Bessarabe...