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Reserved for Ladies (Paramount British) is a witty statement of the social status of a prince of London headwaiters (Leslie Howard) who falls in love incognito with a South African heiress (Elizabeth Allan). He follows her from shop to shop, picking up things she drops; to her hotel (whose dining-room autocrat he is); to the Austrian Tyrol. He is making progress against her sniggers when an incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...
...Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...
...that Jean Harlow is a platinum blonde and plays the part of a society girl seems little cause for this misnomer. There is scarcely any connection between the title and the story of the reporter who leaves his faithful girl pal on the paper to marry the snobbish society heiress. The confines of the plutocracy make him unhappy, and he returns to the comparative freedom of his independence, via a pending divorce, and finds his true love in the girl he left behind...
...sister, her mother and stepfather, Stanley Faithfull, a not prosperous chemist and salesman for a pneumatic mattress concern. Lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered, bewildered, he talked & talked to the thronging newshawks who came away with many conflicting stories and white lies. For some reason his daughter was made an "heiress" by the first sensational stories, a description soon dropped by all but the tabloids. But other newspapers kept the family endowed with an air of gentility, apparently as an excuse to give the story special attention...