Word: bohemianized
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Marion (Ann Harding) is a sophisticated artist, whose affairs had been construed to be slightly Bohemian, and therefore to Dick Kurt (Montgomery) the hardboiled magazine editor, presented themselves as good copy. Leavening this wheat of Mr. Behrman's, Una Merkel and Edward Everett Horton as fiancee and ponderous senator-to-be prove entirely successful. The "senator" also becomes the butt of the editor's vituperation on the political and economic condition of the country--which elicits merited approval of the audience...
Characters are a set of bohemian rapscallions of both sexes who infest a pension in Paris and call themselves the Barbarians. Ready for anything, especially a change of scene or conversation, they flit en masse to the Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving...
...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...
...Behrman's theme of the struggle between mature tolerance and impulsive youth has been scrapped. In its place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...
Herr Wormys wriggled from the Nazis' grasp. They drew pistols, shot him dead. Said the presumably bribed Bohemian innkeeper and his wife next morning, "We never heard a sound." Police found the room riddled with bullets...