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WORCESTER, Oct. 23 (UP)--Joseph Duval, 69, Worcester laborer, was fatally hurt tonight on the Worcester-Boston highway when struck by an automobile in which three Harvard Medical students were returning to Cambridge from New York...
Bert Alfred Canvit, 22, of Hinbrook, New York, the driver, told police he "didn't sec the man until the car bumped against something." Douglas Farmer, 22 of Hinsdale, Illinois, and Erwood G. Edger of Toledo, Ohio, with Canvit at the time, assisted him in taking Duval to a hospital where he died soon after admission. After questioning they continued on their...
...modern preferences. Greta reaches the heights as the charming consumptive, Marguerite Gautler. Her seductive shoulders are bared frequently with the desired effect, and the delicately ethereal effect of her appearance in the last scene is nothing short of great acting. Opposite her is Robert Taylor as handsome Armand Duval is convincing in the most tortuous windings of their love affair. Only occasionally did he seem a trifle stolid and remind us of his Pomona College years...
Lionel Barrymore as the remonstrating father of Duval is excellent, and as coldly logical as usual. The minors are carefully chosen, and reproduce the France of Louis Philippe in a lively manner. Notable scenes are Marguerite's first wild party and the animated bee-hiving expedition...
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...