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...that his colleagues represented a New Deal concentration for pressure purposes. It was a false alarm. Mr. Eccles disappeared in the general direction of home at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O'Connor merely issued cheery figures on California banking and equally cheery denials of an engagement to Cinemactress Elissa Landi. At the last minute Mr. Jones packed off for Washington, pleading that he was still too "shaky on his pins" to make his speech. In parting he rumbled genially: "It has been a pleasure to work with the bankers during the trying period from which happily we have emerged...
...contract, had to have it approved by a court. For Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. young Actor Cooper will next month make a series of recorded programs with such of his older Hollywood colleagues as Fred & Paula Stone, Polly Moran, Patsy Kelly, Dolores Costello Barrymore, Hoot Gibson, Jack Holt, Elissa Landi. For working in Jackie's program, Cinemactress Anne Shirley has already been promised...
...innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo sure of the thief who stole a fortune in pearls...
Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance, and with his suave, dashing acting captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunately for the picture, however, the love-interest as supplied by Elissa Landi is subordinated...
...feature on the program, "Enter Madame," Elissa Landi is starred as the temperamental opera singer in a rather uninteresting plot. It's the old story of career versus love affair, in which Cary Grant, her husband, finally tires of the hysterical eccentricity of his artist wife. Everything turns out happily in the end, of course, when the wife discovers the cause of the trouble and forestalls a divorce though a change of attitude...