Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coached by W. B. Cowen Jr '29, who directed the Cercle Francais play last year, "la Grande Duchesse et le Garcon" is the same play that was adapted for the screen for Adolphe Menjou and know simply as "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." The first tryouts will be held tomorrow in Randolph 9. The club gives one play in the Pall and one in the Spring...
...Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou left Hollywood for France, his somewhat abrupt disappearance from the top flight of film stars was attributed to his inability to make sound pictures. But others said that he had left because his ideas about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice...
...Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall to give...