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...makes their aim not so much the immediate gold of the West as fame which will redound to their profit on their return to the legitimate. This is supposed, by tipsters of this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam Hopkins' also. For, although most who know her name would not recall it, Miss Hopkins has been in nine or ten New York hits before her career in celluloid started. Among these were "Lysistrata," "The Affairs of Anatol," "The Camel Through The Needle's Eye," and "John Ferguson...

Author: By K. D. C., | Title: Cinema * THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER * Drama | 1/24/1934 | See Source »

...rate, "Jezebel" is a play too deadly to allow any actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with the most perfunctory dusting-off, and recombines them in a fashion which the more debased minds might consider "modern." Undoubtedly he had hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when...

Author: By K. D. C., | Title: Cinema * THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER * Drama | 1/24/1934 | See Source »

...slow but gaudy melodrama of the lavender-&-horse-pistols school, Jezebel is notable mainly because it gives Miriam Hopkins (selected for the lead when Tallulah Bankhead fell ill) a chance to rival her cinema performance as a Southern vixen in The Story of Temple Drake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...TIME, May 15). Three years in Holly wood have taught Miss Hopkins to wiggle her eyebrows, as though engaged in a perpetual closeup. but otherwise her acting and good looks have been improved. There is a sharp flicker of vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell's men found terra cotta models of parts of the human body, apparently brought by invalids as votive offerings. Palestine. And when Jehu was come . . . Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. . . . And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers' Year | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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