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...Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (Directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway); Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee. Olympe Bradna); Dead End (Sylvia Sidney. Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart. Claire Trevor); The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Raymond Massey. Madeleine Carroll. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Shanghai bombing newsreels-Universal, March of Time, News...
...Ronald Colman, who can pick his self-assured way through the mazes of melodrama in fancy dress as no one else in Hollywood, doubles as Rudolf, uncrowned King of Strelsau, and his English cousin Rassendyll. Rudolf and Rassendyll, just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally...
Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia. Before he gains his objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan...
Lloyds Banks, established such trade-names as Colman's Mustard, Huntley & Palmer's Biscuits, Jacob's Biscuits. Three families, the Cadburys, Frys and Rowntrees, made fortunes in the chocolate business. Among delegates in Philadelphia last week were Barrow Cadbury, a fox-bearded little man who was chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. until five years ago, and his wife Geraldine, a Dame of the British Empire who told reporters: "I put 'D' on my cards but I wouldn't like to be called Dame." Energetic Joan Fry of the Bristol chocolate-making family was present...
Richard Himber and his orchestra, including Colman Cass in person and the Gibson girl have been chosen to play at the Senior Spread, to be held in Lowell House on the evening of Monday, June...