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...take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every vital situation appears to have been almost deliberately boggled, so that the rest of the cast simply revolve around Miss Bergner like wooden horses about a carrousel's organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bergner Arrives | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...MAGPIE?Lois Vidal?Little, Brown ($3). "Autobiography of a nymph errant"?a 410-page record of an active post-War life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Offensive in spots" were Stand Up and Cheer, Shoot the Works (see col. 3), The Thin Man, The Constant Nymph, It Happened One Night, Tarzan and His Mate, We're Not Dressing, Little Miss Marker, As the Earth Turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cardinal's Campaign | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Married, Basil Dean, English producer; and Victoria Hopper, small, blonde cinemactress whom he directed in The Constant Nymph; in Dunmow, Essex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...tragic Nymph whose constancy is the most poignant picture of adolescent girlhood since Maedchen in Uniform, British Cinemactress Victoria Hopper gives a tender, sensitive, haunting performance. Dodd is Brian Aherne, the British actor who played Robert Browning to Katharine Cornell's Elizabeth Barrett on the stage. Undistinguished opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs, he exhibits in this film vast improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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