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...noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head against every Eton tradition. Between-terms he causes the death of his stepfather's finest jumper...
...Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital, Edward Lawford, brother of Actress Betty Lawford (The Women), brought Hearst Sports Columnist Martene W, ("Bill") Corum with flesh wounds in his left hip and both legs. Columnist Corum said he had been hit by a stray bullet while walking along Madison Avenue. When police continued to question him, it came out that he had been with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum...
...very, very pretty Betty Lawford is a bit cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a democratizing experience, no doubt. John Root's stage so is a magnificent variation on the duplex apartment idea...
...followed by Count Mario Carnini (Tullio Carminati). In a Paris hotel she accidentally stumbles on her son Deedy (Dickie Moore), decides that she wants him back. She gets a job redecorating the home of his guardian Phillip Lawrence (Otto Kruger), sets out to replace his fiancée (Betty Lawford), who slinks through the story sneering at one & all. Innocently she eggs her son into spilling a bucket of fresh fish over the fiancée's dress, finally trades Count Mario for her son's guardian. Good sequence: Ann Harding watching her first lover take...
...part of Blayds's amanuensis-son-in-law is taken in the current production by Ernest Lawford, who carries off the memorable birthday scene with fine pomposity. Blayds should be witnessed if only to see how good Playwright Whimsy-Wimsy was before he had his attack of milne...