Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completing the bill is a piece called "Hideaway Girl", which has no right to be amusing, though once in a while it is. The plot, strung together like an united shoestring, concern a girl (Shirley Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert Cummings) at a filling station, goes to a party at an idealized Seawanbaka yacht club, and winds up, after a good deal of dance and Provencal song, spending the night with him on his toy steamboat. This boat, a fascinating streamlined creature, rather like a cross between the Normandic...
Recalled from a playboy career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs...
...pheasant raising has become a fad among rich rural connoisseurs. With only five pairs entered in last year's Poultry Show, a handful of fanciers organized an Ornamental Pheasant Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president was Philip Morgan ("Phil") Plant, onetime Manhattan playboy and second husband of Constance Bennett, who settled down few years ago to breed bantams and pheasants on his 2,000-acre farm in Waterford, Conn. Vice President was Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. Last week the Society had some 100 members, exhibited 41 pairs of birds...
...Ching, an exiled waif, hopping around Shanghai and looking cut for chances. Her missionary parents have been killed by outlaws and she is on the town. When it starts raining. Ching-Ching crawls into the rumble seat of a roadster, closes the top. The roadster, which belongs to a playboy named Tommy Randall (Robert Young), goes aboard a ship bound for San Francisco...
...case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then becomes a playboy. He cracks up in airplane races, drives a speedboat at Le Touquet, plays polo at Deauville. He takes up with women of the town, fends off U. S. debutantes, begs not to be addressed as "Your Majesty," is called that anyway. He broods: "It's strange . . . that one should...