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Marlene, exquisitely sensuous in her black-plumed sophistication, plays Shanghai Lily to the distraction of every male. Particularly furious is the storm roused in the brave English breast of her old love, Captain Harvey, played by Clive Brook, surgeon in the service of Her Majesty. The action revolves around this...

Author: By H. B. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

The story gets under way with Greta doing a Javanese dance very badly before an Oriental God who seems not to mind. In the audience is the somewhat greasy Ramon Novarro, who, in his Russian uniform, looks like a well-trained barber's assistant at any conceivable Ritz. He falls...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/1/1932 | See Source »

Herr Hitler's chauvinistic campaign speech at Berlin Saturday may well draw the attention of the world from Oriental distractions to the German elections. Tactfully explaining that Germany must not return President von Hindenburg because of those whom Hindenburg represents, Hitler definitely announced his own candidacy. Hitler is making his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GORDIAN KNOT | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

Marlene Dietrich is a heroine of the contemporary order, a "coaster" (poule de luxe) of the Chinese shoreline. The other characters are a group of the ill-assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

The entire theatre is built with a view of providing the utmost in comfort and artistic arrangement, as well as providing ideal acoustic conditions for talking pictures. The outside is built in the modernistic style with graduated lines and sweeping length of contour, while the inside is furnished in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN AND ORIENTAL VIE IN EXOTIC NEW MOVIE PALACE | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

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