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...receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When the home-town suitor reappears, Muriel Flood greets him with great enthusiasm, but by this time he has a wife of his own, too. The manager consoles her by reading a review which credits her with...
...printed news of reptiles (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930). When references to snakes are unavoidable, the Star generally compromises by identifying them as "moving objects." Last week Star editors were horrified when a syndicate comic strip, "Moon Mullins," revealed Uncle Willie's wife Mamie as a onetime snake charmer, showed her performing in a freak show with a huge serpent coiled around her neck. Hastily the resourceful Star substituted non-serpentine "Moon Mullins" strips from...
...round of extreme, extravagant, vulgar display, lit occasionally with sulphurous scandals, with conflicts that ended in tragedy or madness. The John Drexels had 26 carriages. Mrs. Drexel had ropes of pearls made into a Sam Brown belt. Moral standards were confused. Once James Van Alen picked up a local charmer and brought her home with him, outraged Newport ladies who broke their engagements for lunch. Mr. Van Alen's strict daughter refused to make the girl welcome, but agreed to lunch with...
...columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle box was "a scene of constant va et vient." Mrs. E. W. Edwards' daughter was missed but "she, of course, is not going out if, any large way at present...
...usual in the county-fair and side-show cinema, the cast of Carnival includes that familiar breakfast set of human oddities (midgets, bearded lady, fat woman, giant, snake-charmer) who now make a better living by impersonating freaks in pictures than they used to make by really traveling with the circus. The plot concerns the efforts of a widowed puppeteer (Tracy) and his male assistant (Jimmy Durante) to prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage...