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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies Should Listen (Paramount). "Have you ever gone through the telephone book, page by page?" asks Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
...Died. Julian Hawthorne, 88, author, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost...
...last week the New York Daily News, with the biggest circulation in the U. S., popped out with a new serial-Evelyn Nesbit's Untold Story. Printed in daily installments, it was the text of a lurid book called Prodigal Days, by Evelyn Nesbit, published last month by Julian Messner...
Died. Dr. Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, 61, historian, president of William & Mary College since 1919; of a kidney ailment ; in Norfolk...
...picture "Stingaree", new showing at R. K. O. Keith's, is, unlike the fish, innocuously poisonous. Mr. Richard Dix gives his dashingly middle-aged performance, while Miss Irene Dunne "takes everything in her stride". The part of Sir Julian Kent is played by Conway Tearle with refined restraint; there was nothing else he could do with it. Mary Boland enlivens the highly improblematic plot by a too realistic portrayal of the Colonial dowager aspiring to be a prima donna and pictorial shots of sheep grazing and the Stingaree galloping into the night add to the effect. The remainder...