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...adapting" the play from the original, several changes have been made, and all of them for the worse. Foremost has been the elimination of the role of the Helmers' children from active stage roles. Since in the original play they serve as a means of broadening Nora's character and giving her motives foundation, their loss is almost irreparable. In meeting the difficulties brought on by this omission, Dale Melbourne as Nora falls far short of possessing the ability to make the character seem real. The only impressions she leaves on the audience as she makes her exit...
Errol Flynn's private life was again public property: 1) Hollywood heard that he would be sued for divorce by Nora Eddington, who last month named him as the father of her daughter (TIME. Feb. 12); 2) Nora denied that she would sue; 3) Flynn, as usual, had no comment on that subject; 4) caught in a rarely talkative mood in Atlanta, Ga., he confided to reporters: "I'm almost afraid of women. When I meet a girl I like, I hesitate to tell her who I am. My reputation is too hot. . . . I'm not really...
Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...
...bags aren't that big. My eyes just look as though they are peeping over two dirty ping-pong balls." When Zolotow reports: "Allen got his first break when he played the lead in Polly, a 1928 musical," Allen corrects him testily: "In 1921 I toured with Nora Bayes and Lew Fields. In 1922 I played in The Passing Show at the Winter Garden. In 1924 I was in The Greenwich Follies. Where were you during these years, Mr. Zolotow...
...story concerns the tiny English hamlet of Bramley End and its two-day seizure by four planeloads of German paratroopers disguised as four lorry-loads of British engineers. Unmasked by Nora Ashton (Valerie Taylor), sweetheart of Community Leader Oliver Wilsford (Leslie Banks), who is really a fifth columnist, the Germans pen the villagers in the church...