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Julian Karell (Nils Asther) appears at first blush to be no scientist at all, but merely a London artist of the 19303 who paints such a conventionally fashionable portrait of his socialite fiancée (Helen Walker) that some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead...
Permanent Waiver. In Kansas City, Nellie Wells, 15, told police she was through with her 18-year-old fiancé, who won her heart, borrowed her purse (with $120 in it), left her high & dry in a beauty parlor having her hair fixed for the wedding...
Miss Young is wholly incapable of catching the wretched undertones which hum between her fiancé (Barry Sullivan) and her sister (Susan Hayward), who love each other. She is also a born snob, insensitive to the rumblings of proletarian Shantytown as conveyed by her doctor, who was born there and will never forgive her for it. Since the doctor spends most of his time snarling at her, as she can readily discern by reading his lips, she is perhaps less to be blamed for not realizing that he loves...
...marriage, the mildly dimwitted Earl of Harpenden provides a potted U.S. lieutenant with a lodging for the night and a discarded ladylove. The lieutenant, however, mistakes the earl's fiancée (Anne Burr) for the fancy woman, and the two promptly fall in love. Almost as promptly the pair are involved with a farcical Free French officer, the trollop, and the fiancée's ducal deadbeat of a father (well played by Melville Cooper). Thereafter the confusion grows, the enjoyment dwindles...
Five days later another messenger came. It was 7:30 in the evening. The supper dishes had been washed; Mr. & Mrs. Niland were in the living room with their two daughters and Preston's fiancée, Dorothy Frey. Daughter Clarissa Marie answered the doorbell while the group in the living room sat still. Again the words "The Secretary of War . . . sympathy on the loss of your son Robert...