Word: lombards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Godfrey (Universal). "A scavenger hunt," sighs bored and beautiful Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard), "is just like a treasure hunt, except in a treasure hunt you find something you want and in a scavenger hunt you find things you don't want and the one who wins gets a prize, only there really isn't any prize, it's just the honor of winning, because all the money goes to charity if there's any money left over, but then there never...
Sketch wanted by a professional. Marguerite Miller, 48 Lombard Terrace, Arlington...
...screen this week is displaying the new Carole Lombard opus. "The Princess Comes Across" and the boards are carrying the weighty burden of a Cliff Edwards hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz...
...battle over their mother's estate, is famed in Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
...Love Before Breakfast," is as crazy as its title, but is more than averagely amusing. Preston Foster crashes through with a lot of fast comebacks to make up for the merely average performance of Carole Lombard. Janet Beecher as Carole's mother does an excellent job with her tempestuous daughter who is in love with Cesare Romero. Romero plays his usual greasy part and the whole audience is happier when Foster and his millions save the heroine from a sloppy marriage...