Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Burkan, born 55 years ago in Rumania, can become as impassioned over songs and songwriters as he was when he lately pleaded for the maternal rights of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Because Victor Herbert was his friend, the ASCAP cause became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...
...Calif., the John J. Mitchells (Lolita Armour) could likewise boast of two adopted children. Down the Coast in Hollywood, many a cinemadopted youngster rested securely in his crib, or romped beside a private pool. There the visitor could read about Wallace Beery's 4-year-old Carol Ann, Gloria Swanson's Joseph, Harold Lloyd's Peggy, Constance Bennett's Peter, Morton & Barbara Bennett Downey's Michael, Barbara Stanwyck's Dion, Fredric March's 3-year-old Jacqueline, 1-year-old Anthony...
...bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation of the best song in the picture, "Lullaby of Broadway," in which Winifred Shaw's head is suddenly...
Dick Powell plays with charm and appeal. He is supported by winsome Gloria Stuart, who seems to grow more beautiful in each succeeding picture. Adolphe Menjou takes the part of the eccentric producer who displays more loquaciousness than money to Grant Mitchell, the irate manager of the ultra fashionable Wentworth Plaza resort hotel. Glenda Farrell again inherits the role of the gold-digger who sets her cap for Hugh Herbert, an idle multi-millionaire with a penchant for writing monograms and collecting antique snuff boxes. Alice Brady, as the close-fisted millionaire mother of Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh, does...
...better moments. Fools Rush In fell back on the satire its predecessor used with such success. There was a political speech by a stripling named O. Z. Whitehead, who was nominating somebody for something in the Tenth Assembly District. Barbara Hutton Mdivani. Doris Duke and Gloria Baker came in for some stern kidding in a ribald song. Imogene Coca made a sprightly and naughty Salvation Army lassie. Meeting at a Girl Scout affair, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt had some acid things to say to each other...