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...sophistication. Author Donald Ogden Stewart is an old hand at this type of humor and he employed it in his play Rebound. Less successful in Manhattan than either of Author Barry's comedies, it was purchased for the cinema by RKO as a vehicle for cinemactress Ann Harding. Ina Claire got the role instead after dazzling cinema producers with a brilliant performance in Rebound on the Los Angeles stage...
...next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded, could shine in the Belasco firmament. The suggestion of ruptured romance between Actress Carter and Producer Belasco helped the latter's legend. Successively he discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical costume,* Producer Belasco fostered the properties, attitudes, legends which identified him. At times he was apt to croon about himself and his profession...
...real reason for the success of this movie is in the acting of Ina Claire and Frederic March. Miss Claire, presented with the no small problem of portraying Ethel Barrymore, reached the heights of artistry in her mimicry. All of the peculiar gestures, intonations, and hand claspings of the original were so thoroughly mastered by her that what might have been blunt burlesque became highly subtle comedy. As for Frederic March, he gave a caricature of John Barrymore that was so high-spirited and frankly satirical that he practically swept the play off its feet every time he made...
...since the play, after brilliant and prolonged success in New York and on the road, provoked no violent animosity from the group satirized, Paramount has found courage to label the characters. Fredric March imitates John Barrymore and tries to look as much like him as possible without conspicuous makeup. Ina Claire reflects many of the favorite intonations of gaunt Sister Ethel. The playing of these two is better than the playing of the original principals in the same parts, and since the minor parts also are almost perfectly cast and the whole piece is smartly directed by Cyril Gardner...
Elsa Maxwell, rich California socialite who lives in Paris and entertains amusingly on her visits to Manhattan, gave her annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons...