Word: cheyney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last of Mrs. Cheyney, varnished English comedies in straight descent from Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero wherein persons of title misbehaved in epigrams...
JANE CLARK HILL Cheyney...
...using the name Luli Deste. Thunder in the City gives her opportunity to demonstrate that these qualities photograph extremely well. She is currently established in Hollywood with three Afghan hounds. Divorced wife of the late Baron Godfried Hohenberg, Luli Deste once understudied Elizabeth Bergner in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, ran a rug-weaving concern in London before she started in European cinema a year ago. Given to exotic mannerisms, she dotes on cooking such dishes as saddle of stag, pigeon stuffed with quail...
...whole, the program at the Loew's State and Loew's Orpheum this week is pretty flat. William Powell, Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery are amusing enough in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," of course, but the companion piece, a thing called "Dangerous Number," is nothing less than colossal, daring and stupendous in its badness. And the second feature detracts from the first...
...Last of Mrs. Cheyney" is from the old play by Fredric Lonsdale, and its theme is really a rather hackneyed one. As the Loews publicity sheet puts it, the heroine "takes London society by storm, is the recipient of proposals of marriage from millionaires and peers;" in fact, the shopgirl's dream. You've seen it done before, but the present cast and Boleslawki's direction make it sufficiently diverting. It is not up to some of its predecessors, but compared to "Dangerous Number" it is brilliant--or will be if seeing "Dangerous Number" first doesn't make you made...