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About half the spectators were Chinese, well-groomed in fine furs and narrow, split skirts. In the bygone era of extraterritoriality, they had never been invited to Madame Garnett's dress salon. Now Madame boasted a clientele of "all the most prominent Chinese." They are "very, very wealthy and very, very rich," she explained. The foreign ladies, carefully sitting apart, accepted the new era with resignation...
Under a clouded sky, 80 guests relaxed on wicker chairs and awaited the beginning of Madame Elanora Garnett's first postwar fashion show. Gathered on the broad, springy lawn of Madame's plushy home were leading lights of Shanghai's international set. The wife of a U.S. oil company manager came confidently attired in a new spring suit; an icy Russian brunette sat like a Raphael Madonna in a startling blue turban...
Though he is hampered by more stolid and much more pretentious material, Director Tay Garnett is still clearly the man who gave the melodramas Bataan and The Cross of Lorraine their honest intensity, and Cameraman Joseph Ruttenberg and several players-notably the Misses Cooper, Tandy and Hunt and Messrs. Peck and Crisp-add valuable services of their own. The main reason the picture will do well, though, is that it gives Greer Garson a chance at something...
Vitamin U is a name for a substance present in grass, hog stomach, peanuts and other ill-assorted foods. Lieut. Colonel Garnett Cheney of the Army Medical Corps thinks that stomach ulcers may come from lack of it. He once gave gastric ulcers to chicks with the help of a Uless diet...
...contracts call for one film a year for Fox, one for M.G.M., two each, over a four-year period, for Casey Robinson, Selznick and RKO. He has already finished Selznick's Spellbound with Bergman, directed by Hitchcock, and Metro's Valley of Decision, with Garson, directed by Garnett...