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Moving picture producers are often unfortunate in the choice of titles. The Hollywood that changed "The Admirable Crichton" to "Male and Female" has done even worse by Claudette Colbert in her latest vehicle. But don't let the tittle scare you away from "She Married Her Boss." In it Miss Colbert demonstrates once again that she is the first comedy actress of the screen, and she gets able support from Melvyn Douglas and the rest of the cast...
While "Charlemagne" has some witty lines, and is pleasant enough diversion, one cannot help remembering that Barrie wrote a masterful play in "The Admirable Crichton," and that the French author of "Charlemagne" should have known better than to try to improve on the greatest writer of whimsy the stage has known...
...Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play. In We're Not Dressing Miss Lombard's yacht is wrecked when her drunken uncle (Leon Errol) steers...
...following an operation for an internal disorder; in London. In 1896 Sir Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine the Great...
Born-To John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 25, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Eileen Beatrice Forbes Crichton-Stuart, second daughter of the Earl of Granard, niece of Ogden Livingston Mills; twin sons; in London. The elder is heir to one of Britain's biggest hereditary estates...