Word: muir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orchids To You" turned out to be one of those average pictures which barely make the average. Its amusing moments were supplied by Charles Butter-worth who is never daunted by the material with which he is supplied. While Jean Muir deserved congratulations upon every count for finding the right man in John Boles, one could never bring himself to extend the congratulations...
Orchids to You (Fox) concerns a beauteous blonde who is in love with a handsome brunet who is in love with his wife who is in love with another man. The blonde (Jean Muir) is a successful Manhattan florist. The brunet (John Boles) is a successful Manhattan attorney. The wife (Ruthelma Stevens) is a throaty creature who spends most of her spare moments in her lover's arms while pretending she is attending a dying mother...
...mostly against a fancy background of flowers. Orchids to You is more engaging than it sounds, not only because the dialog is swift or because cactus-faced Charles Butterworth bounds in & out to utter countless inanities, but because Jean Muir knows better than most of her contemporaries how to indicate unrequited love without resorting to breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed...
...Then comes the head usher, Mr. Muir, with his lists and plans...
Died, John Muir, 87, Manhattan stock broker, pioneer specialist in "odd lot" sales (less than 100 shares) of securities; in Flushing, N. Y. Called the "Odd Lot King," Broker Muir was an early advocate of "baby bonds," of the partial payment plan which the U. S. Government adopted in selling Liberty Bonds...