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...this is one remarkable character, a waiter (Edouard La Roche) who is a cross between the Admirable Crichton and a Christian saint. To all emergencies he responds with almost divine calm and good sense, never forgetting his hospitality. As the flames lick up over the roof's parapet he is still offering to bring blankets, wine, hope, dernier confort...
...Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis and was threatening to go to work when fate overtook him in the manner which tradition prescribes for gigolos. The husband of a woman he had been comforting all winter came home one evening and threw him over the parapet of a penthouse. The scene in which he lies crushed to death on the pavement is the end of his life in Paramount pictures. From now on he will work for Warner and there are indications in Ladies' Man that the deal had already been completed and that...
...privilege of canoeing on the Hudson or swimming in Delafield Pond, a beautiful little artificial pool nestling in an arm of the rolling hills above the Plain. It the cadet is lazy he may take a red comforter, compose himself in the shade of Ft. Clinton parapet, and sleep the afternoon away...
Some 15,000 persons, white and red, were gathered about the canyon when Citizen Coolidge arrived from Globe with Arizona's Governor John C. Phillips. He climbed up the dam parapet to speak. The beat of tom-toms died away. He had a sore throat; his voice was husky. A plane droned disturbingly in the desert stillness above. Citizen Coolidge began...
...last act do these characters produce the witty, sardonic tensions which you expect of them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted, goes with: a slim fellow who proves to be incredibly cherubic for one who has served with the Canadian expeditionary forces. He used...