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...With a Silk Thread, Elsa (PickUp Girl) Shelley told of a throaty, sexy exactress married to a jealous surgeon and infatuated with a self-seeking young actor. Never did words seem more feeble or woes more protracted. Yet the play performed a miracle of sorts: after starting at rock bottom, it went steadily downhill...
...rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss (Walter Slezak...
...Prepared. In New Albany, Ind., Head Librarian Elsa Strassweg resigned herself to the current rash of book thefts: the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook...
...good deal of care and talent have been lavished on the Garden. Aside from Principals O'Brien and Stockwell, who handle their tears and tantrums with equal facility, there are good performances by Herbert Marshall, Elsa Lanchester as a chuckleheaded Yorkshire maid, and Reginald Owen as a grumpy old gardener...
With sweet smiles and cold determination, the sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...