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...even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
...Bagdad beggar who masquerades as a prince (played with characteristic swaggering gusto by Ronald Colman) is a professional adventurer whose resourcefulness and cunning are limited only by the extent of the script writer's familiarity with some of the old Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary...
Born. To Ronald Colman, 53, aging, greying British cinemactor; and Benita Hume, 37, onetime cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Juliet. Weight...
...Colonel Colman of Selfridge Field shoots a private and he is "demoted" to the rank of captain, though he was recently retired...
...Captain Colman's ouster from the Army was ordered by Secretary of War Stimson, who was said to be outraged by the court-martial's cream-puff sentence. The ouster was made under Public Law 190, which authorizes "a more expeditious procedure to vitalize the active list." The procedure: a hearing before a board of five general officers. Colman's retired pay, fixed by law: $900 a year...