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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Hollywood ladies. While he gave each her measure of good looks, he satirized her character with surrealist trimmings. Joan Crawford's portrait was titled The Most Beautiful Still of the Month, showed her attitudinizing in front of a bed like any tragic stenographer. The Merry Widow showed Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene...
Orchids to You (Fox) concerns a beauteous blonde who is in love with a handsome brunet who is in love with his wife who is in love with another man. The blonde (Jean Muir) is a successful Manhattan florist. The brunet (John Boles) is a successful Manhattan attorney. The wife (Ruthelma Stevens) is a throaty creature who spends most of her spare moments in her lover's arms while pretending she is attending a dying mother...
...mostly against a fancy background of flowers. Orchids to You is more engaging than it sounds, not only because the dialog is swift or because cactus-faced Charles Butterworth bounds in & out to utter countless inanities, but because Jean Muir knows better than most of her contemporaries how to indicate unrequited love without resorting to breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed...
...Also challenged last week was French Tennist Jean Borotra by Paris Sportswriter Didier Poulain, as the culmination of an exchange of insults started by Sportswriter Poulain's insistence that Borotra had let France down by refusing to play singles in the French Davis Cup matches...
What the Morning Telegraph is to race-track addicts in New York, L'Auto is to sports enthusiasts in Paris. Last fortnight, L'Auto published a letter by Didier Poulain, its tennis expert, denouncing famed Jean Borotra for "letting France down" by not playing singles on France's Davis Cup team. Jean Borotra promptly replied with a letter denouncing Sportswriter Poulain. Last week, the Borotra v. Poulain controversy became a subject of international excitement when Sportswriter Poulain sent Tennist Borotra a challenge to a duel which Tennist Borotra, at Wimbledon for the 55th All-England Championships, angrily...