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...funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface: Mr. Haddock (Leon Errol) wrestling with a brakeman in an empty car; Mrs. Haddock (Zazu Pitts) overcome with seasickness induced by autosuggestion while the boat is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Lovely Lady", the latest Mitzi vehicle to reach Boston where it now graces the boards of the Wilbur Theatre, is a typically hot-house musical comedy product. The first act has as its locale the screen room of the "Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...Mitzi is a delightful comedienne who does not scruple to resort to horse-play in order to win a laugh. The secret of her buffoonery is the art of contrast...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...same day, Singer Bori, Diplomat de Ligne, Architect Gilbert, Bishop Manning, Arthur Churchill, Actress Collier, Aviator Lambert, Preacher Fosdick, Actress Mitzi, Constable* Protheroe-Smith. Critic Nathan sailed, variously, by the Roma, Majestic, Paris, Carmania, Lapland, Minnesota; and Oilman Pratt, Publisher Doran, Brewer Doelger arrived on the Berengaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

According to that well established authority, the Bible, it is impossible for a man to add a cubit to his stature by taking thought, but it does not say anything about detracting a cubit or even more from a woman's girth by the same process. In this respect Mitzi, star of "The Madcap" now playing at the Shubert Theatre goes the Good Book one better, for she gives a formula for taking off weight which consists mostly of taking thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIN THOUGHTS | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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