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...Penguin Pool Murder," on the same bill, is a moderately entertaining but trite mystery-comedy, with occasional good bits of performing by James Gleason and Edna May Oliver...
Since last week the experts know what the tuberculous girl is like, can pick her from the crowd. Edna E. Nicholson, investigator, described the typical tuberculous girl after looking at the coffins and talking to the relatives of the 678 girls who died of tuberculosis in New York City during...
Commendable in purpose, workmanlike in execution, The Conquerors suffers mainly from delusions of grandeur. The first part of the picture is charming. Ann Harding manages to disguise with gayety that virulent nobility which often injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress of a dilapidated hotel, he as her husband, an inebriate doctor who manages to be grandiloquent even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures...
...stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude in Grumpy. Herbert Marshall has divided his time between the stages of London and Manhattan, where he has been seen in These Charming People, The High Road, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and last season, with his wife Edna Best, in There's Always Juliet. Edna Best was in Hollywood last year under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she left to join her husband who was then in no special demand by the cinema. The situations of Edna Best and Herbert Marshall are now reversed. Last month he left Hollywood, whither...
...Married. Edna Hoyt Warburton Lord, Manhattan socialite, for the third time; and Roderick Tower, son of the late U. S. Ambassador to Russia and Minister to Austria, Charlemagne Tower, for the second time; in Paris...