Word: lisbeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Margery Sharp is a bright-eyed, diminutive, facetious English girl whose The Nutmeg Tree was a surprise best-seller two years ago. As a followup, Harlequin House is less surprising; it tells a bouncing, bubbling, frankly inconsequential story about giddy Lisbeth and her shiftless brother Ronny, with Lisbeth managing four men at once in a campaign to reform Ronny who had spent six months in jail for somebody else's racket...
...Lisbeth's other three men include an impeccable fiancé, an amiable American whom she met on a merry-go-round, a middle-aged Londoner with 152 pairs of red socks, who is mesmerized so completely that even Lisbeth cannot break the spell she casts over him. Mostly pleasant nonsense, Harlequin House is sometimes so addled that a reader is diverted by wondering how Author Sharp can unscramble her puzzle. He finds that she fits it together so neatly that nothing is lacking but a point...
...Stahl supposed that if a better known actress took the part of the deserted sweetheart, cinemaddicts would have difficulty in believing that a hero could so easily forget her. She liked her work in that picture so little that she refused to see it, finally sent her colored maid Lisbeth to investigate. Lisbeth reported the picture was wonderful and had made her cry. Said Margaret Sullavan: "Now I know it must be terrible." When the late Lilyan Tashman congratulated her, Margaret Sullavan thanked her curtly. Said Cinemactress Tashman: "Someone should teach that girl some manners." If Margaret Sullavan lacks manners...
...Hollywood, Miss Sullavan follows the current fashion for shyness. She keeps an official residence with a secretary to answer telephone calls, lives in a small house with Lisbeth, uses no makeup, dresses in moccasins, old sweater & trousers. She swims 30 times up & down her pool every morning, 30 more times every evening, attends no Hollywood parties even when they are given by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. Stubborn about her own affairs, she replies to studio requests to have a crooked tooth in the left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last...