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...beginning of this picture, is a shabby and bedazzled pedagog, soberly extolling to the urchins in his classroom the virtues of a copy book philosophy. At the end of the picture he is a gay boulevardier. dressed in a depraved cutaway and accompanied by a mistress (Myrna Loy) whom he has stolen from a baron. The transformation starts when Topaze loses his job for punishing the baron's stupid son. It is completed when the baron (Reginald Mason) has made Topaze head of a fraudulent mineral water company and has procured for him the Academic Palm, which the professor...
...year was the fact that the roles usually assigned to wife and mistress in such a triangle were reversed. Under the sharp beam of a projection machine, it becomes apparent that this novelty was the principal virtue of The Animal Kingdom. As Tom Collier's designing wife, Myrna Loy is attractive enough to make you believe that Collier would desert a mistress for her; attractive enough to make you believe that he is likely to do it again. Another thing which, by making Tom Collier's predicament more lifelike, makes his final decision less plausible, is the deletion...
...room for only ten of his heroines. This is just as well. They are an uninteresting crew who belonged to the same sorority in a girls' finishing school. One by one, three of them drop dead. Their high mortality rate is due to a half-caste girl (Myrna Loy) who was not allowed to join the sorority and has been nursing her grudge. As assistant to a dizzy astrologer ( Henry Gordon) she has written poison pen letters to all her snobbish schoolmates. She is preparing to follow up her disastrous circulars with more direct methods when a smart detective...
...another. Follows a period of short-lived happiness, until the husband's actions show him still to love his former fiance. There ensues a struggle for this man by a worthy wife, fighting for her home and life's happiness, against a fluff-minded cocotte (played by Myrna Loy) pursuing the pleasures of the moment. The scenes in which Ina Claire, as the wife, admits failure are richly poignant, and are pervaded by the skill of Miss Claire's portrayal...
...Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking...