Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons Cinemactress Helen Vinson gave last December for suing Fred Perry for divorce was his insisting that she sit through all his tennis matches. Last week, after Tennist Perry had been trounced three times in a row by Donald Budge on their first joint professional tour, Miss Vinson withdrew suit, rejoined her husband...
Even Wagner's fans cannot deny that his operas are lush. His love affairs were more so. Richard found it even harder to edit his morals than his scores, and scarcely less numerous than his leitmotivs were his lady-friends. Most soothing of all, according to Miss Richardson, was Cosima, daughter of one close friend, Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt, wife of another, Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bülow. But readers will find that what Cosima did to take the crinkles out of Richard's brow put them double-deep onto Franz's and Hans...
...light-hearted Paris where she can romp with royalty but feel more at home with taxi-drivers. It is a sprightly picture, never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly the hero in his rare moments of appearance. Mr. Barrymore should not be subdued that way; but unfortunately the spotlight demands a younger triangle of which Francis Lederer is about sixty degrees...
...King of Chinatown" is passable but leaves one more convinced than ever that a good feature picture demands no double bill. It is a step down from Miss Colbert to Auna May Wong, and it washes the good taste from one's mouth...
...there're the customary shots of Nelson Eddy in a soldier's uniform and Jeanette MacDonald's exotic larynx, but underneath it all is a subdued smirk. At last Hollywood is beginning to realize that the Great American Public can't live on molasses all the time, even with Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy...