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...Gauguin, he abruptly quits all that for Paris, semistarvation and oil painting. He takes over the studio and the wife (Doris Dudley) of a piteous fellow painter (Steve Geray). Later he leaves the wife to suicide, and heads for Tahiti where he marries a sleek young native with a Mona Grable smile (Elena Verdugo), slaps out masterpieces by the gross, dies (lingeringly) of leprosy...
During one of Sarah Bernhardt's many "farewell" tours he wrote: "To me in every role she is the Mona Lisa, disinterested, semi-smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound flippant to the stuffy, but to all others his fastidious values were plain enough. Many actors hated Percy Hammond, many others recognized his pith. When the Chicago Tribune announced that he was being sent abroad to cover World War I, a Chicago actor remarked: "Heavens! What if he doesn...
...part of a kindly old professor of philosophy who is told that he has but six months to live, and decides that the best way to spend it is to murder a criminal who cannot be reached by the arm of the law. Jeffery Lynn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Mona Maris distinguish themselves in supporting roles. All in all, just barely better than studying...
...RIGHT MURDER-Craig Rice -Simon & Schuster ($2). In this sequel to The Wrong Murder, Mona McClane makes good her boast: she'll commit murder in the public streets in full view of witnesses and go free. Another fine, tough, drunken frenzy-American style...
...finally planted on the drooping shoulders of Thomas Mitchell, a golden-hearted old college professor whose days are numbered by heart disease. Along come a former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose happy home has been upset by a prowling, pernicious femme fatale (Mona Maris). Mitchell tracks her down with such professorial precision, makes such painfully punctilious notes on her case that his conclusion that she is loaded with "greed, selfishness and brutality" will come as a surprise to no one. Nor will his eventual course of action. Chief merit of the picture: the professor...