Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready...
Airily written, amusingly scored, sprinkled with reliable supporting players, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has more deftness than heft, loses speed in the late rounds. Best fun: Actress Colbert warding off ardent Actor Cooper's advances with a scallion breath, announcing: "I'll fight you with every vegetable at my disposal...
...Crimson won again. In their annual baseball frolic Saturday afternoon in the Briggs Cage, the Harvard coaching staff repeated their Victory margin of 36-14 over the Yale mentors for the eighth consecutive time...
Rusty Greenhood was twenty-third, with 24 points; Frank Coleman, same number; Don Barker, twenty-eighth, with 20; Jim Curwen, thirty-third, with 18; Don McKay, thirty-fourth, with 17; Ray Benedict, fifty-fifth, with 10 points...
Funsters have engaged Jimmy Lunceford and his orchestra for their eighth annual spring dance and costume party to be held on the unlucky date of Friday, May 13, it was announced yesterday...