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...married Mary Duke, who eventually fell heir to the millions of her father, Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke. In 1931, after bearing him two children, Mary Duke Biddle divorced her husband, who shortly married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular Minister Biddle has been voted by tailors one of the "world's ten best-dressed men." He is well-liked by his neighbors in Philadelphia, Manhattan, Newport, Palm Beach and Paris...
Shanghai (Paramount) is a soberly sentimental treatise upon the inconveniences of racial intermarriage in which Dmitri Koslov (Charles Boyer), son of a Manchu Princess and a Russian nobleman, makes diffident love to a visiting U. S. heiress (Loretta Young) among the bars and drawing rooms of Shanghai's European colony. Assiduous cinemaddicts, who have seen it emphasized in 75% of all previous geographic problem plays, should experience small difficulty in assimilating the moral of the picture, implicit in the scene in which Dmitri and his heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap...
...distaff side are female psychiatrists. Like Dr. Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall) convinces her that what she mistakes for Love is merely spiritual chicken pox. This is the climax...
...second feature on the program, "Hold 'Em Yale," is a hilarious comedy of the lighter sort, combining humorous dialogue with a series of extraordinary situations. Patricia Ellis is featured as the pampered young heiress who is afflicted with an ungovernable passion for men in uniform, much to the sorrow of her father, who has to foot the expensive bills for her numerous divorces. Cesar Romero plays the part of the dashing but unfaithful object of Miss Ellis's affections. The humor pervading the whole picture reaches its climax in the scene depicting the Harvard-Yale football game, won by Yale...
Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...