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...secret of Miss Lillie's high comedy is that she appears to enjoy her clowning as much as the audience. Her funniest sketch in The Third Little Show is enacted in a Paris dive whither Miss Lillie, a visiting Englishwoman, and a spinsterish companion have repaired for a cup of tea. In spite of murder and rapine which takes place under her nose, Miss Lillie doggedly finishes her repast, incredibly chipper even when a corpse is draped over her shoulders. She also obliges with that old favorite: "There are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...
Narrator of this sad story was a doctor who ran amuck. Resident in a native village in the Dutch East Indies, he was lonely, bored till one day in walked a beautiful Englishwoman, a rich trader's wife. She was in trouble: her husband, who had been away five months, was about to return; she was going to have a baby by another man; she wanted the doctor to perform an illegal operation while there was time. She offered him a fortune to do it. The doctor did not like her manner : she was supercilious, but she fired...
Just before he was hanged at Lahore, last week, for assassinating an Englishwoman from political motives, ex-Private Sajah Singh said to his British executioners...
...familiar Hungarian musical comedy steppes?a district of palaces, vineyards, and extemporary duets. Going as substitute, the flower girl is wooed by an important local grandee who judges her character by what he has heard about Miss Tashman. Evelyn Laye is the heroine. She is a slender blonde Englishwoman who won fame last year in the stage musicomedy, Bitter Sweet. She sings and acts nicely, and though the whole production lacks distinction it is handsomely staged and cast and embellished with the folding leg and funny face of Comedian Leon Errol. Best shot: Errol posting a letter. Silliest shot: Laye...
...love with a girl whom he takes for an heiress but who is really a private secretary. Fortunately, not much attention is paid to the plot, except as a framework for gags. Such a gag is the sequence in which he makes some light social remarks about a titled Englishwoman whose name happens to be the same as that of a racehorse with which he is familiar. There is a gag with fishcakes and a dog, and a gag with an exploding cigar. Each one is carefully constructed, a little mechanical, but irresistible and in the best Lloyd manner...