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...Princess Anne in a forthcoming diplomatic romance. Just about this time the king gets the constitution out of the dust-covered files and reads it, every word. He then proceeds to prove that the worm can turn (in his own humble way, of course), and that the meek inherit the earth...
With the appearance of picayune Zachary Smith Reynolds Jr. there arose immediately the question of who was to inherit the estate-now grown to $20,000,000-of Zachary Smith Reynolds. Before his second marriage he had made a will in New York bequeathing it to his brother and two sisters. The will omitted mention of Libby Holman and her son. It provided $50,000 each for Anne Cannon Reynolds and Anne Cannon Reynolds...
There remains no baritone of potentially historic acclaim save Tibbett who, essentially practical and intelligent about his career, wastes no time worrying about his temperament but proceeds methodically, laboriously to equip himself for great things. He knows that sooner or later he will inherit some of Scotti's roles. He has already sung Scarpia in road performances of Tosca. He would like to sing Falstaff. the role Scotti was singing that night eight years ago when the audience suddenly started shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" stopping the show for 20 minutes because it liked the young American who sang the part...
...Mummy (Universal). Boris Karloff, like the late Lon Chancy whose niche in the cinema he is trying hard to inherit, keeps his pressagent busy estimating the amount of time he expends in putting on makeup. For The Mummy, Karloff's preparations took eight hours. He dampened his face, covered it with strips of cotton, applied collodion and spirit gum, pinned his ears back, covered his head with clay, painted himself with 22 kinds of greasepaint, then wound himself up like a top in bandages which had been rotted in acid and roasted. It is a pity that these energetic...
...since it is handled with skill and enthusiasm, If I Had a Million gives the impression of being a startlingly original picture as well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer...