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Glamour (Universal) from a story by Edna Ferber, is a preachment on the vanity of the flesh. While rehearsing in the chorus of a new show Linda Fayne (Constance Cummings) decides to reach star dom by plaguing the show's composer, Victor Banki (Paul Lukas), into writing a song especially for her. So charmingly does she plague that she gets Victor in stead. Marriage to Victor brings her no nearer to success on the stage, and she is ready to give up her ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby...
...Keith's--"Wild Cargo". Last two days of Frank Buck's story of his triumphs over the most ferocious of wild animals. Edna Ferber's "Glamour" with Constance Cummings and Paul Lukas starts Saturday...
...pleasant talent of Edward Everett Borton and Edna May Oliver make the other mediocre movie. "The Poor Rich" adequate entertainment for the tired undergraduate. In the role of penniless aristocratic cousins with an impressive genealogical background, they make a last desperate attempt to obtain a rich bride for the here. After several complications. Albert finds that he can marry where true love guides him. Grant Mitchell, who has never equaled in the films the success he scored in the play. "Little Accident," gave a satisfactory interpretation of the deputy sheriff. Neither Leila Hyama nor Thelma Todd were allowed...
...effort was made to find CWA projects for women and for skilled laborers. Actually about 5% of those hired were skilled. Many strange things had to be found for the white collar people to do. For example, last week in Missouri a group of professional singers headed by Miss Edna Haseltine was hired at 35¢ an hour, sent out into the Ozark hills to give grand opera?only it was not called that for fear the natives would not attend. Admissions charged in different towns were turned back to buy materials for local CWA projects. Elsewhere unemployed musicians were hired...
Editor of Tiny Tower is Bosco Cass, who uses her real name, Edna Cass Noll, only when signing the adult poetry she sometimes writes. She graduated seven years ago from Emerson College, where she gave weekly readings in Boston's Little Children's Theatre. Later Bosco Cass be came a performer in a Shubert musicomedy, a clothes model, a schoolteacher, a reader for a literary agent. Her notions for Tiny Tower she tries out on public school children. When they disapproved of a modernistic Santa Claus on the cover, she substituted an old-fashioned one, teasing...