Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture shown is Adolphe Menjou in "His Private Life" and is a rather amusing Parisian farce. It is considerably better than the average comedy served, and one of the better Menjou offerings...
...Private Life. Faced with the problem of creating another vehicle for the graceful and faintly pensive urbanity of Adolphe Menjou, Ernest Vajda and Director Frank Tuttle got together on a story, or rather that story about the Parisian who is so tired of women that he is expressing his weariness in an epigrammatic speech when-what do you think?-a beautiful pair of legs goes by. The pursuit, tailored with a good deal of deft comic detail, leads in and out of bedrooms and round and round a jealous husband until, at Kathryn Carver's request, a waiter removes...
Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME in your Cinema column you print, "Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house. . . ." If facts are of any interest to your valuable publication I shall be very happy to furnish a complete history of my life. Although I have followed a number of professions, I have up to the present never been a waiter in real life...
...ADOLPHE MENJOU...
TIME erred. The father of Original Subscriber Menjou was the owner of a Cleveland chop house on Prospect Street, famed for its beer; young Adolphe, home from Cornell University, helped in the management, greeted customers, but donned no waiter's costume. Yet, Adolphe Menjou, by his cinema roles, has done more than any man alive to glorify the profession of waiters, both plain and head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou...