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...Mexico has also produced a pair of torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...
...Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that if he could not attend, his mother could take his place. If anything...
Back Street (Universal), last done in 1932, is noted in the trade press as a "four-handkerchief" movie. Fannie Hurst's dreary, solemn story of a woman's lifelong devotion to her lover succeeds in proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lot of an unmarried wife is hard and lonely...
Jane Cowl can make a crumpled handkerchief as much of a dramatic asset as Barrymore's profile, Leon Errol's legs or W. C. Fields's illuminated nose. She has plenty of chance to use one here, where she finds herself in a trying erotic situation...
...Manhattan novelist who has a paramour in her publisher's office. Unfortunately her old friend and sister authoress, Peggy Wood, has a young daughter who takes the paramour's eye and eventually his heart. In three acts full of adroit handkerchief work Cowl runs a gamut of politely contained emotions and achieves resignation in the end-with the help of old acquaintance. At one point, where she snuffles back her tears, she brings off a little masterpiece of nasal dramatics. Meanwhile Peggy Wood has given a witty picture of a blonde, bird-brained, overdressed, likeable soul...