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...brooding boop-a-dooper has had bad luck with maids and pets, and so she lives alone in her bird's nest. She wakes up at 5 a.m. and drives the Jag- she hates cars-diffidently to the studio. At night, if she has no date, she paints ("almost always little girls," says a friend, "and they almost always end up looking like her") or sits in her red swing and listens to 1920s records. On weekends, she does dutifully the chores of a not-yet star: she packs up her 40-lb. dress and dances the Charleston...
Offscreen as on, the face looks a little too beautiful to be true, like the kind of adolescent daydream served up in the comic strips. The cut of the face is Betty Boop, but the coloring and expression are Daisy Mae. The eyes are large and grey, and lend the features a look of baby-doll innocence. The innocence is in the voice, too, which is high and excited, like a little girl...
...winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside at her prey, slides out of a pair of lace panties, and departs northward to bump and grind...
...Curiosity Shop (Victor LP). Stagy old recordings, dating from 1911 to 1929, that should bring mist to many an eye. Among the performers: Maurice Chevalier (Valentine), Helen ("boo-boop-a-doop") Kane (I Have to Have You), Marlene Dietrich (Falling in Love Again), Fanny Brice (My Man), Gloria Swanson (Love). Added features: monologues by Will Rogers, De Wolf Hopper and John Barrymore...
...under his wing as the studio's best low-budget film. Largely on the movie's merits, Producer Stanley Rubin, 34, onetime TV film producer, was signed as a producer-writer by 20th Century-Fox, and Director Richard Fleischer, 35, son of Animated Cartoon Pioneer Max (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor) Fleischer, was handed a directorial contract by Producer Stanley Kramer. For its trigger-paced suspense, their little picture is worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and Carol Reed's Night Train...