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...first seen at work, Vidocq is just an unusually smooth garter-snatcher (his quarry: Carole Landis). But as he matures, he does a dowager (Alma Kruger) out of every jewel she has, without diminishing her regard for him. He also inspires high regard in her lovely granddaughter (Signe Hasso), and decides that as a detective, recovering the lost jewels by brilliant deduction, he can make his way in the world even better...
...when once a Countess bonny Lost her garter at the dance, Then they coined the motto "Honi Soit qui mal y pense...
...offer this dreary, dirty rubbish ... is an insult to our nation." Minister Wilkinson damned such "appealing . . . to the lower side of human nature," urged on schoolgirls (as future mothers and teachers) the goal of ending "things like that." The shocker: a new cinema version of Getting Gertie's Garter...
Since last fall, when "Getting Gertie's Garter" alliteratively closed the Majestic's career as a first-run house, the theatre has been running re-issues. (Re-issues are brand new prints, with new sound-tracks, of old pictures). The change-over wasn't premeditated: strikes and allotment limitations in Hollywood forced an expedition into the files which exhumed films as much as ten years old--"Sylvia Scarlet." "Naughty Marietta," "Pot O' Gold," "Snow White," and the like...
take it from me kiddo believe me my country, 'tis of you, land of the Cluett Shirt Boston Garter and Spearming Girl With the Wrigley Eyes (of you land of the Arrow Ide and Earl & Wilson Collars) of you i sing; land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E. Pinkham, land above all of Just Add Hot Water And Serve- from every B.V.D. let freedom ring...