Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the witty, rich and velvet sophistication out of which Philip Barry fashioned the best comedy of the 1928-29 theatrical season has not, in translation to the screen, been exchanged for the crude, stuffy plushes of Hollywood naivete. Presenting the situation of a youth engaged to marry an heiress but unwilling to accept the pompous responsibilities of great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have a holiday, is followed to Paris by Julia...
President John Thompson Dorrance (soup) sent to be presented at the Royal Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...
...charming voice--which has already been shown as non-existent, thus reducing the motivating forces of the film ad absurdem--and his just as charming tenderness--which the reviewer doesn't believe in anyway-- wins him (Maurice) an American Heiross which makes a very long sentence. Father of heiress objects to foreign influence, but being a clever old cadger, brings Maurice of America so he may flicker in contrast with the go-getters of this country. Maurice, of course, becomes an outstanding success in the world of finance, makes speeches at banquets, gives sales-talks, and does everything to lose...
...would not have been respectful to hint that at 21 the heiress of the House of Orange-Nassau should have a husband. Dutch delicacy forbade that. But it was permissible, right, even a duty to hint that the Dutch East Indies have not yet received a visit from Her Royal Highness Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Duchess of Ficklebourg, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Crown Princess of the Netherlands...
...barkie," which is one way of saying that its most startling sound effects are produced by a dog?famed Rin Tin Tin. He helps to apprehend a villain, the unscrupulous manager of a tropical rubber plantation (John Loder), and is thereby a great satisfaction to the comely heiress who, among other things, has been willed the plantation. In the course of the story Charles Delaney becomes variously but strongly attached to both girl...