Word: boudoired
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...Firebird (Warner) is a routine Viennese boudoir-&Tpistol mystery which leaves the vague impression that a casual murder may be a fine, broadening influence on a woman. A conceited actor (Ricardo Cortez), who is fond of playing Stravinsky's blood-tingling Firebird, is found shot dead in his bedroom. Was he killed by his onetime wife, whom he had publicly knocked down for dunning him for alimony? Or by his neighbor Her Excellency whom he had invited to his rooms at midnight? Or by His Excellency who may have known of that fact? Or by Their Excellencies' daughter...
...embarrassing stress on its merits as a drama, it is easy to say that the "St. Louis Kid" is good Cagney; and good Cagney, as an unfortunately large number of people know, may be depended upon to include turmoil among the gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting...
...Catalina Island, Mrs. S. M. Douglas caught a handsome swordfish, wanted to mount it in her boudoir. Mrs. Douglas took her catch to Mrs. Charles Parker in Los Angeles, had it painted a delicate pink "to match the drapes." Taxidermist...
...Howard refuses to treat the midget as a child, tartly tells him he is old enough to be his father, contemptuously asks him when he is going to take out his first papers, offers him a cigar. The bedtime story, a fairly dirty one about a Round Table boudoir, is pantomimed by a voluptuous young woman in medieval dress and an actor who cannot get out of his armor. About the only thing the midget has to do is ogle the girl and shout, when her knight enters with a fanfare: "TIME marches...
...season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...