Word: bluebeards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maitre Moro-Giafferri has won many famous French criminal cases. His most celebrated defense, although it failed, was that of "the French Bluebeard," Henri Desire Landru, accused of butchering ten women and a boy. The defense arguments in this case are still regarded by members of the Paris bar as tops in technical perfection and legal virtuosity. Landru was guillotined February...
Born. To Ernst Lubitsch, 46, famed cinema director (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife); and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress and Script Writer Vivian Gave: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend places the public slave market-a matter of sore denial...
...Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready...
Airily written, amusingly scored, sprinkled with reliable supporting players, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has more deftness than heft, loses speed in the late rounds. Best fun: Actress Colbert warding off ardent Actor Cooper's advances with a scallion breath, announcing: "I'll fight you with every vegetable at my disposal...