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...Questa es nula konference por formacar alianci, por dividar la preduri di milito, por repartar landi, por traktar homa enti, velut se li esud la gaji in un ludo di hazardo. Nia skopo, sub fortunoza auspicii, es sikurigar la continuations dil prospero di paco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gloro | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...unhappy contrast, "Mad Holiday"' the companion feature, with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi, is rather slow and hackneyed. Philip Trent (Edmund Lowe), a movie actor wearied of his acedetective role in mystery films, boards a ship for a vacation cruise. On the steamer he meets Phyllis (Elissa Landi), author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...

Author: By T. N. T., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...pushing slapstick. Nevertheless, the murder is eventually solved, the diamond recovered, and Philip finds himself in Phyllis's arms. The two interests, humor and mystery, seem to get in each others' way throughout, frequently tripping up the action. Perhaps the one redeeming feature of the whole production is Elissa Landi, whose performance is good and beauty better...

Author: By T. N. T., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Francisco to find a party already in progress at their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds him in a cabaret but he has barely time to drink his health before the scapegrace staggers out to be murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink and work in earnest. His evening reaches its peak when, in a room containing half a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...that his colleagues represented a New Deal concentration for pressure purposes. It was a false alarm. Mr. Eccles disappeared in the general direction of home at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O'Connor merely issued cheery figures on California banking and equally cheery denials of an engagement to Cinemactress Elissa Landi. At the last minute Mr. Jones packed off for Washington, pleading that he was still too "shaky on his pins" to make his speech. In parting he rumbled genially: "It has been a pleasure to work with the bankers during the trying period from which happily we have emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers at San Francisco | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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