Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MOVERS AND SHAKERS-Mabel Dodge Luhan-Harcourt, Brace...
During the last four years a wealthy, 56-year-old grandmother, living in the peaceful seclusion of her New Mexican ranch, has published three books that belong with the most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies. Creator of these solemnly indiscreet records is Mabel Dodge Luhan, patroness of art, friend of D. H. Lawrence and of other literary great, wife of a Taos Indian whose folkways she recounted in Winter in Taos. The scandalous books are the successive volumes of her Intimate Memories. This is a long manuscript, about which lurid literary legends are steadily accumulating. It now reposes in the safe...
Died. Laird Doyle, 30, crack Warner Brothers film scenarist (Oil For the Lamps of China, Special Agent, Cain and Mabel); of a fractured skull and internal injuries received when his airplane crashed near Grand Central Air Terminal; in Glendale, Calif...
...Cain and Mabel (Warner Bros.). "Her face is new," comments a character early in this picture in reference to Marion Davies. Actually, Cinemactress Davies' face, first seen on the screen in 1918, is getting quite old. It will never be as old, however, as Cain and Mabel's plot, which combines two of the cinema's most familiar story formulas: 1) Hate Can Turn to Love; 2) The Way to a Man's Heart Is Through His Stomach...
Hate arises between Cain (Clark Gable) and Mabel (Marion Davies) when he, trying to sleep before fighting for the world's heavyweight title, is kept awake all night by her tap dancing in the room above. He loses the fight, earns another crack at the title, wins it. When neither he nor Mabel proves a box-office draw, a press agent gives them glamor by a fake romance. This evokes wearisome bickering, which suddenly ends when hungry Cain surprises Mabel cooking a pork chop. They take to meeting surreptitiously in the public library, kissing behind a book on ichthyology...