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Those of you who have been plodding faithfully to all the recent run of Dietrich-Von Sternberg films only to glimpse the abundant beauties of the actress and have been gratified in that and in nothing else, have a tinkling, silver treat in store for you. "Desire" gives you a Dietrich as beautiful as ever. But the vehicle itself, being an artistic achievement of the first order, delights by its own shimmering sophistication and gives Marlene, and Gary Cooper too, a splendid opportunity...
...enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving together when the picture which includes them has definite esthetic merit. Desire is a romantic comedy of grace, dexterity and charm in which Marlene Dietrich's performance is the best she has given since she became too dignified to exhibit the legs which brought her her first U. S. fame in the Bine Angel...
...picture opens in Paris, where Tom Bradley (Gary Cooper), a handsome young automobile engineer from Detroit, is setting out for a holiday in Spain. Madeleine de Beaupré (Marlene Dietrich) is also off for Spain. She is a de luxe jewel thief and in her handbag is secreted a pearl necklace worth 2,200,000 francs. Their paths cross along the road, where he fixes her car; again at the border, where she slips the pearls into his pocket to get past the customs inspectors; once more in Madrid, where she joins her oily confederate (John Halliday). When the three...
...willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis of getting exclusive endorsements for his products. Mabel Normand was once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important cinemactress, except Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Miriam Hopkins, is on the Factor list. With 70 distribution plants throughout the world, Factor claims he is the leading cosmetics manufacturer in the U. S., says he has cut into the French export trade, asserts that on the basis of the last Department of Commerce survey...
...Dietrich Gerhard, Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Berlin and Lecturer at the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik, will be lecturer and tutor in History during the second half-year. Dr. Gerard Pieter Kulper, of the Lick Observatory, University of California, will be lecturer on Astronomy. Ole Singstad, Chief Engineer on Tunnels, Port of New York Authority, will visit Harvard to lecture at the Graduate School of Engineering. Kenneth Vivian Thimann, Instructor in Bacteriology, California Institute of Technology, will be lecturer on Botany during the first half-year...