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...REIGN OF SOAPY SMITH-William Ross Collier & Edwin Victor Westrate-Doubleday, Doran...
...instructors of snobbish St. George's School were periodically awed by examination papers dashed off in blank verse by a student named Ogden Nash. Few years later Manhattan admen chortled over bits of doggerel, rhymed only by weird feats of spelling, which cluttered the advertising offices of Barron Collier. Ogden Nash, after one year at Harvard, one year of teaching; and two years of painful attempts to sell bonds, was struggling over Collier car-card copy, setting down, meanwhile, the verses which popped into his wandering mind. While working for Collier, Rhymester Nash collaborated on a book for children...
...thumb This Week's pages, practically none will have the remotest idea whose show it is. Even if they knew the man's name- Joseph Palmer Knapp-it would mean little or nothing to them: just as it means nothing to the 8,250,000 readers of Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home...
Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...
Crotchety old women who outwit strong men have become a cinema staple. To hers (named Aunt Melissa) Miss Collier brings a patrician nose, a rattly voice and a formidable vivacity out of the fine tradition of the theatre of 30 years...