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...Charming Sinners (Paramount). Believing, probably correctly, that flattery is a persuasive form of entertainment, producers are presenting with increasing confidence and frequency pictures which assume sophistication in the audience. Only a few of the time-honored tenets of cine-morality are now retained, but these unshakably. In this picture, Clive Brook, as Ruth Chatterton's husband, can be definitely unfaithful to her, but Miss Chatterton after winning him back cannot take her revenge by going to Italy with another fellow as Ethel Barrymore did when she acted in this play (The Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes...
...billowing grey ulster and a bullet-hard bowler hat motored to Windsor Castle early last week to kiss the King's hand, resign as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Waiting at the palace door to receive him was the King's equerry and grouse-shooting friend, Col. Sir Clive Wigram, and King George's favorite grandchild, little Princess Elizabeth, soberly staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When...
...womanhood in general, perhaps of motherhood. Adolph Zukor would not stand for anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with his brother. Clive Brook does not kill himself after all because he finds that Mme. Baclanova's perhaps necessary death in the last scene was not caused by the poison he put in her lime-juice but by a snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character...
...adjournment last week, neither Britain nor Japan had requested so much as a peek. Therefore dapper Mr. Gibson put the Hoover Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass the report...
Monica, well bred, was exceedingly cordial to Hester; but Hester was rude with harum-scarum honesty. She swept Clive off to her world of modernistic furniture, and noisy banter, while Monica quietly retired from London to the country. Then Hester, disturbed by the misery she felt in Clive, in Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling...