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...boarding-school, a maliciously insane little girl, and an unsuccessful libel suit are the ingredients of "These Three", now at the University Theatre. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon run the school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries...
Oriental self-sacrifice played to the tune of splitting shells and roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...
...little support from the English attache who is infatuated with the exotic beauty of his foreign colleague's wife. In depicting the British simplicity and ingenuousness that is meant to contrast so strongly with the subtle Japanese craftiness, he outdoes himself and becomes mainly stupid. Charles Boyer and Merle Oberon go a long way in making the picture look better than it is, but even they give room for regret, in being manifestly cramped by their unnatural roles...
...Director Korda left Hollywood in 1928, however, he had had enough of its methods to last him a lifetime. The Private Life of Henry VIII, which he produced on a shoestring in 1933 and which made cinema stars of five actors in the cast from Charles Laughton to Merle Oberon, got him the backing of Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. It also gave him a chance to explore on a grand scale his own ideas about cinema production, crystallized by a distaste for those of the U. S. industry...
Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) open a school for girls in an old house Karen has inherited from her grandmother. Young Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea) helps them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by sending her little granddaughter, Mary (Bonita Granville), to their school and recommending it to her friends. Mary Tilford, shrewd, neurotic and remorseless, hates schools in general and this one in particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards...