Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance, what seemed to be the trouble was a spat between "Rumania's two Mrs. Simpsons," for in this respect the little kingdom has doubled up on Great Britain. Bucharest's potent Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is titian-haired, curvesome Mme Magda Lupescu, the Jewish companion and adviser of the King. His Majesty feels that his "sacrifice" in not marrying his Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is one which leaves all Rumania under a debt of gratitude to the Throne. In holding this opinion King Carol glosses over or forgets that in his youth he took a morganatic wife...
...wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails, he stages a mock kidnapping by the natives, who accuse the "Pineapple Girl" of stealing the black pearl which keeps their volcano quiet. The kanakas carry the two men, Miss Smith and her loud companion (Martha Raye) to an isolated island to appease the erupting volcano. Miss Smith finds romance, to the vast relief of Imperial Pineapple...
...American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him. Said his guide and drinking companion: "All Russia loves you, not we Communists only, but even the damned bourgeoisie...
...Evergreen", with the English Jessie Matthews, is a pleasant enough companion. In spots the imitation of American musicomedies, even to a Busby Berkely dance scene in a cannon factory, is so exaggerated as to be funny in itself. But the picture can well stand on its own and Jessie Matthew's feet...
...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...