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Died. George Bistany, 45, famed animalcatcher, superintendent of San Francisco's Zoo; of high blood pressure, a kidney ailment and grief; in San Francisco. Last November the Zoo's prize orangutan "Ginger" died of poison. Its keeper, Jack Bamberger, promptly took to his bed, died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany...
...hunts is the ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream of the hunting gentry...
...fooled by the electric lights outside the University this week: Ginger Rogers is definitely not a six day bike racer. Instead she always her for so effectively with Fred Astaire in "The Gay Divorcee." Fred's twinking toes do credit, in this performance, to his international reputation it is rather a shame, however, that the audience cannot be spared the antics of Alice Gracie Allen Brady and Everett Horton which come in between dances...
Kelth's Memorial: "Gay Divorces"--Fred Astairo dancing and singing with the very attractive Ginger Rogers in a diverting adaptation of last year's successful musicomedy. Music is good and the dancing excellent although a bit overdone. Fred Astaire's gracefully rhythmic tripping will dolight you if you like the modern way of doing things terpsichorean...
...title. This should cause no greater harm than mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist. There appear the impediments customary in musicomedy romance. Astaire is mistaken for a professional corespondent whom the young lady's guardians (Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton) have ordered from an agency. A fatuous waiter makes ridiculous monologs...