Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likeness of a stage lady of a different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...
Other members of the cast from Radcliffe's Idler Club and the parts they play are as follows; Lee Francis as Katherine, Margaret Heiman as Laura, Agnes Love as Cornelia, and Katherine Young as Alice...
...adopted daughters than any other ruler has Dictator Kamal Ataturk, abolisher of Turkish harems. Last week one of his five adopted daughters, Miss Zehra, petite and brown-eyed with jet-black bobbed hair, tumbled from a Calais-Paris express, fractured her skull, died. Said the English Headmistress of St. Margaret's school near London: "We did not have the slightest notion that she was homesick. She seemed intensely interested in the theatre...
...WOOLLCOTT READER-edited by Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($3). A 1,101-page anthology of Alexander Woollcott's favorite reading, including Richard Harding Davis' The Bar Sinister, Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy, selections from the work of Clarence Day, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder...
...Personal Maid's Secret" with Margaret Lindsay and Ruth Donnelly has a couple of scenes that are really swell. It has, though, the perennial child-one that materially strengthens our conviction that infant movie actors should all be drowned. Incidentally the maid's secret is just what we suspected. It is pleasant not to be disappointed...