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Domino. Producer William Augustin Brady got his season-opener from his wife Grace George, who adapted it from the French of Marcel Achard. A faithful wife (Jessie Royce Landis), disturbed by her husband's jealousy of her onetime lover (Geoffrey Kerr), hires a ne'er-do-well called Domino (Rod La Rocque) to pretend that it is he who has been her lover. The love of Lorette and the foppish Cremone had been a routine, spiritless affair. Domino makes of it a romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller...
Somewhere between Paris and New York Domino lost its charm, possibly in the translation which turns "Sans blague!" to "Oh, yeah?" Domino's few funny moments were due to Geoffrey Kerr, who stuttered, smoked cigarets in a foot-long holder, made both pathetic and amusing his portrayal of fumbling ineffectuality...
...July 4 issue of TIME your discussion of Plain Talk magazine recalls a real journalistic firebrand, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, who founded it, and died June...
...Author. An English Jewess, Gladys Bronwyn Stern Holdsworth was born in London in 1890, seven years later wrote a play mostly because the billiard room in her home made a good stage. She studied drama, soon decided on a literary career. In 1919 Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy...
...their fathers and mothers, are still of some good in the world. Authoress Hull, in a remarkably feminine but unsentimental novel, shows the home-fire therapy at work, shows to what beneficent ends its Lares & Penates can keep house. When Amy Norton begins to feel that her marriage with Geoffrey is an experience outworn, that they are both becoming drugs on each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm...