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...questionable integrity, is reformed when a baby named Penelope (Shirley Temple) comes into his life. Penelope is his child by an earlier marriage. When first reminded of her, he is having some difficulty meeting the hotel bills incurred in an excursion through the Orient with Toni (Carole Lombard). He is confident that he can sell his unpleasant brother-in-law the right to adopt the child for enough money to perpetuate the irresponsibilities that he enjoys with Toni. It is partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that make him decide, on meeting...
Harvard Club of London--Dinner to President Conant at Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue, W. C. Tonight (Friday). All Harvard men invited. Tickets 10z.6d. (exclusive of wines).--Apply Secretary, 30 Lombard Street, E.C. Telephone, Mansion House...
...third week at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre. It broke box office records in Kansas City and Chicago, seemed likely to be one of the most profitable Fox productions of the year. Forthcoming is another Temple picture, Now and Forever, in which the child will be starred with Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper. No youngster in the memory of Hollywood oldsters had ever scored such a quick and complete success with cinemaddicts...
...Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive, temperamental actress (Carole Lombard) and ensuing fireworks...
...Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg and the late David Belasco, produces a succession of failures, ends up in Chicago with money troubles...