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Pierre Belcroix (Earle Larimore), a journeyman musician, and his wife Romaine (Edna Best) are visited by an eminent amorist and violinist, Marcel Blanc (Mr. Rathbone). In no time at all the ancient triangle situation develops. As the curtain falls on Act I there is a charming scene in the virtuoso's apartment, with Miss Best lying in Mr. Rathbone's arms and humming Lehar's "Dein ist Mein Ganzes Hertz." In Act II, however, the affair becomes less idyllic. Miss Best tries to poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor...
Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...
FATAL INTERVIEW-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Now that Elinor Wylie is dead, Edna St. Vincent Millay has become by popular acclamation the foremost U. S. poetess. But Elinor Wylie had an unmistakably individual style; Edna St. Vincent Millay is distinguishable from the ruck of modern poets only by the uniformly high plane of her language, the clarity of her line. Like most of her fellows she is lyrical (i. e. plaintive). In this book of 52 sonnets love is all her plaint. Most tell of love lost, losing, or going out by the window; a few are hortatory...
...Author. Once mistress of a style faintly flippant, almost Dorothy-Parkeresque. Edna St. Vincent Millay has settled into seriousness. Still young (39) but not so young as she was, her line, her bobbed hair, tip-tilted nose have begun to "date." A Vassar girl, married (to Eugen Jan Boissevain), a Pulitzer Prize winner (1922), she has sought poetry and ensued it in many a book. Four years ago she wrote the libretto to Deems Taylor's opera, The King's Henchman, got as much praise as he did. Other books: Renascence and Other Poems, Figs from Thistles, Aria...
...Saturday morning course directed by Musical Handyman Sigmund Spaeth over WJZ will have famed musical amateurs for teachers: Writer John Erskine last week, Aviator Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones this week, with Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Architect Kenneth Murchison and Artists Peter Arno and Neysa McMein mentioned as other possibilities...