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...talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before and after." At week's end Pola, looking pert and still glamorous, was photographed after she landed in New York for a two-week visit with anonymous old friends...
...next. The flow is swept along, too, by the apt and fetching musical score of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian master of the age in which the scene is set. The lively songs of the mounte banks are cribbed from some old com media dell' arte notes, except for a pert little tarantella by Musical Director Gino Marinuzzi. Color and sound - and indeed most of the elements of the film - are matched and inbraided with loving care...
...Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told him that girl mush and Tom Swift just did not mix. To many a saddened fan it seemed best that Tom should...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
...like every American girl-be simple," urged Paris Dressmaker Jean Desses last summer, when his favorite customer announced that she was planning a trip to the U.S. and needed some new things to wear. The Queen of Greece, the pert, petite lady to whom he spoke, seized on the good advice. She had only one royal admonition to offer. "I have a tiny waist,"* she said, "and I want to show...