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...Great Flirtation (Paramount). A Hungarian actor (Adolphe Menjou), unduly proud of his ability, boasts that he could not play badly if he tried. He marries an actress (Elissa Landi), is jealous of her, sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi...
...Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show's latest thing in painted nudity - Miss Mona Leslie who pops up out of a fountain, does a dance and finally plunges into a pool. As a judge of Mona no doubt "Momo" is peer less but Paris, jealous of the safety of her franc on the gold standard, resented the implied opinion of francs and French securities expressed by Baron Maurice de Rothschild to Chicago reporters: "Any one who has money would be wise to in vest it in United States dollars or Government bonds. That...
...Ovila Dionne was the thirty-first human mother known to have borne quintuplets (see p. 39). At Yale's 200-acre Anthropoid Experiment Station in Orange Park, Fla. last week was another mother who, with a record unique in biological annals, might well have been jealous of the hullabaloo over the Canadian woman and her offspring. Her name is Mona and she is a 21-year-old chimpanzee. At Orange Park on June 26, 1933, she gave birth to fraternal twins, male & female. The father was an 11-year-old brought from Africa by a sailor. Mona had spent...
...cinema lacks the exciting detail, the intimacy of the book but neither book nor picture will help the police clear up the Rothstein murder. The picture's hero, Murray Golden (Spencer Tracy), might be any screen gambler from Hollywood. The plot, in which a rival underworld character grows jealous of Golden's success, and Golden's wife (Helen Twelvetrees) and mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein...
...Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph. He wanted to treat with Ibn Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great prestige. Emir called for war, for more war, for the Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud's supply trains in the hills, the compact crinkle-bearded old man scrambled up into Sana, city...