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...Return of Peter Grimm (RKO). Lionel Barrymore is the cantankerous florist who, feeling a cold breath on his cheek, hastily completes arrangements to perpetuate the two projects dearest to his heart: his nurseries, and the happiness of his ward, Helen Mack. When, after death, he discovers that his plans will result only in decimating the first and stultifying the second he comes back. He has trouble getting through to the living at first, finally finds a doorway open to him-the mind of a child (George Breakston) who is slipping over into his world. Through that youngster he saves...
Orchids to You (Fox) concerns a beauteous blonde who is in love with a handsome brunet who is in love with his wife who is in love with another man. The blonde (Jean Muir) is a successful Manhattan florist. The brunet (John Boles) is a successful Manhattan attorney. The wife (Ruthelma Stevens) is a throaty creature who spends most of her spare moments in her lover's arms while pretending she is attending a dying mother...
Marriage Revealed. Crystal* Marion Lawes, 24, daughter of Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes; and Jack Stratton Douvarjo, 24, florist, son of a Mt. Vernon (N. Y.) barber; following elopement to Manhattan last...
...daughters sent him Scotch whiskey, which he likes to drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman (she pays the florist), red the dresses he prefers women to wear. Earliest appearance of the obsession: first time he saw Mrs. Hoffman, she was leaning over the white gate of her home at Americus, Ga., wearing a red calico dress...
...wise to connect with one good florist and do business all through him. He then gets to know the vases and how to make up his piece so that it fits. . . . Be sure to choose a florist who has fresh, first class merchandise. 'Seconds' are noticeably inferior when placed on the altar, and they wilt rapidly...