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Irked when her fiancé laughs at her inability to do winter sports, the heroine .Hella Hartwich) goes to St. Moritz to learn. There she encounters two ski-larking jacks-of-all-trades (tall Walter Riml, tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with...
...model." The examination takes place in a barn. When it is over, Mavis Arden decides that she will take the young inventor back to Hollywood. Her plan is frustrated by Pressagent Stevens. By dangling tiny garments in front of her, he convinces her that the young man's fiancée is pregnant, causing Mavis to snort: "Fine goings on around here!" By the time she learns that the young man's relations with his fiancée are not premature, the situation has considerably changed. She loses interest in both the inventor and the Congressman, rides...
...Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film. Winner was tall, tennis-playing Francis Xavier Shields. In the course of the picture, he and Actress Leeds (Barney's daughter) kiss neither each other nor anyone else...
That Oriental young women have ideals distinctively their own appeared in Tokyo, where students at the Government's "schools for prospective wives" lately voted by large majorities that the ideal Japanese suitor is a rather stout man with a steady job who secures his fiancèe through a broker, takes his wife home to live comfortably with his parents and three times per month escorts her to the theatre or a movie...
...Juliana is coming with her fiancé," murmured the stolidly joyous Dutch who had just learned of their Crown Princess' engagement (TIME, Sept. 14). A car was sighted whizzing toward the Palace and out boomed the royal Dutch cheer: "Hold the Sea! Hold...