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Last week she was a fluttery French ingenue, an English schoolgirl, a Southern belle, a young bride, a cackling 85-year-old murderess, an Irish landlady, a Mexican shrew, a neurotic. She was also rehearsing her normal voice for a new role in Herbert Marshall's The Man Called X (NBC, Tues. 10 p.m., E.D.S.T...
Bedelia allows Margaret Lockwood to poison three husbands for their insurance and then commit suicide when her fourth begins to get the idea. Suicide, in the U.S., is a sloppy out for wrongdoers. A tidy U.S. ending will hand the murderess over to the cops...
...Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
...story of in-law trouble carried to awful extremes. But it is hard to work up any sustained sympathy for the uptight characters. Audiences will probably side with the murderess, who spends all of the early reels trying to manage five minutes alone with her husband. Just as it looks possible, she picks up a pair of binoculars and sees his brother, her mother, her adopted cousin and the caretaker approaching by motorboat...
Alternating Georgina's mental balloon ascensions (murderess on trial for her life, high-minded mother of twins, poison-swallowing streetwalker, emergency Portia triumphing in The Merchant of Venice) with her muddled, mundane romances, Dream Girl shoots at nothing much higher than fun. For the first third of Georgina's day, it shoots pretty wide of the mark, is more forced than funny. But once it gets going, it spins merrily along...