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Into this struggle steps a mysterious stranger (Joseph Gotten), courtly, penniless and alcoholic, a poet whose identity the film discloses at the fadeout. The good French girl and the evil housekeeper are rivals for his help, and he seems to waver between them. When Calhern dies, only Gotten has a clue to the whereabouts of a new will and the imagination to track it down...
...pair of elegant swindlers preying on a group of social snobs who turn out to be just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler. Their plans go awry, and the comedy shifts from drawing room to bedroom, when Lady Greer arouses...
...Brattle, Henri Rene Lenormand's "He and She," may strike some people as a tragedy of near epic proportions, but I'm afraid I can't go along with that. To me it seemed a dreary, overwritten, and sententious bit of claptrap. The play follows a company of penniless French actors on a tour of the provinces, and illustrates at length how their sordid existence goes from bad to worse. Playwright Lenormand's worst is pretty bad; for the hero it includes malnutrition, sleeplessness, alcoholism, and frustration--capped by a bad case of laryngitis...
...figures that he received a letter of thanks from His Majesty's inspector of taxes. But when an idea became involved with the figures, Shaw's acumen (and scruples) deserted him instantly. When he became convinced, as he did in his last years, that he was becoming penniless, he quickly "proved" that he paid the Exchequer ?147 for every ?100 he earned. When Miss Patch demolished his calculations, he retorted brusquely: "I am sticking to my figure of ?147 as the easiest to remember...
...National Jewish Hospital at Denver and this winter, his TB arrested, he arrived in Kansas City. Friends saw to it that special bills for permanent residence were introduced in both the Senate and the House, but Congress did nothing about either. Last week, 60 years old and almost penniless, Hans Lenk was beginning to lose hope at last. Unless Congress acted, he would have to leave the country in less than a month and start all over again the whole slow and painful task of trying to become an American...