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...Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg and the late David Belasco, produces a succession of failures, ends up in Chicago with money troubles...
When he boards the Twentieth Century Limited for New York with his tippling press agent (Roscoe Karns) and his fretful business manager (Walter Connolly), Lily Garland turns up in the next compartment. Their entire trip is consumed in efforts to get her signature on a contract. The appearance in his car of two guttural-voiced "beards" whirls Jaffe into an inspiration. He will produce the Passion Play of which they are members, adding dervishes, camels, elephants, an ibis and Lily Garland as Magdalen. Jaffe finds a willing backer in a religious fanatic (Etienne Girardot) who has delusions of wealth...
...could be unloaded from icicled baggage cars. Who knew what might happen, now that the radio and the big papers down in New York were talking about John Winant for President? It had been a long time ago, but one New Hampshireman, Franklin Pierce, had made it. In the garland of local journalistic tributes which promptly flourished throughout the state, none was so significant as that of the Manchester Union: "If Mr. Winant aspires to the Presidency, he will discover only friendliness and loyalty at home...
Chairman of the conference was Virginia's white-haired, benign John Garland Pollard who spoke on the desirability of mortgagees and mortgagors getting together voluntarily to adjust their debt. But the 62-year-old widower made far more news when he scuttled...
Married. Governor John Garland Pollard of Virginia, 62; and Violet Elizabeth McDougall, 44, his executive secretary; in Winnipeg...