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...FLORADORA GIRL (Marion Davies) ?Jumbled but amusing reminiscence of the Mauve Decade (TIME, June...
...Floradora Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is a brilliant, animated cartoon of the fashions of the Mauve Decade?a cartoon brought to life by the comic playing of Marion Davies and built around an effervescing, satirical story...
Into the career of Miss Davies, stupidest member of the Floradora sextette, comes a gay dog who means her no good, but who realizes his true love for her when she resists his advances after a cold bottle and a warm bird. Lawrence Gray, the male lead, plays his part with proper seriousness and the rest of the cast have been persuaded somehow to conceal their consciousness of the text's value as burlesque. It is a good cast, but Miss Davies, probably the most skillful comedienne in pictures, lovely in her trailing gowns, is better than the rest...
Died. Mrs. Guy Bates Post (Adele Ritchie), 55, oldtime (1893-1918) musical comedy actress (Floradora), onetime wife of Actor Guy Bates Post; and her friend and hostess, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, 32; in a double shooting; at Laguna Beach, Calif. Police thought Mrs. Post shot Mrs. Palmer after a quarrel, then spent two hours shopping, trying to calm herself before she returned to the scene of murder, shot herself...
...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...