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...went so fast-he kept putti"? on the gas instead of the brake, and couldn't figure out what he was doing wrong. We were all terribly frightened, but it was fun." When Pat was 13 her mother died, and Pat became the homemaker for her father and brothers. (The Bender children had grown up and moved away.) During the harvest, she worked in the fields with her family and the hired hands, then headed back to the kitchen to cook. "I learned fast," she remembers. "I'd bake a half-dozen pies at a time...
Died. Lya de Putti, 32, high-born Hungarian stage and film actress (Variety, The Heart Thief, Made In France); of pneumonia after an operation to remove a chicken bone from her throat; in Manhattan...
Made In France. It would be pleasant to record that Lya De Putti, the small luscious lady with the heart-shaped mouth who played opposite Emil Jannings in Variety, is as complete a success on the comedy stage as she was in the silent cinema. But this would be untrue. The scene of Made In France is laid in a chateau which a group of Americans have rented and in which the husband and suitors of the two ladies in the party were billeted during the War. One gathers that the gentlemen were active back-area cutups for when Miss...
Made In France may be considered as over-roguish, but no worse than the average biological farce. Miss De Putti's mumming, more enthusiastic than impressive, runs to posturing, comic mispronunciations, acrobatics...
Buck Privates. Lya de Putti, who, with Emil Jannings, was seen in Variety, whirling in dizzy arcs on the trapezes of love and sorrow, now plays a faintly comic role in a rather foolish U. S. soldier-boy cinema. A demure, unprepossessing pacifist, wearing a huge head of false hair, she falls in love with a boisterous buck private named John Smith. Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque. At the last, everybody begins to run around, faster and faster, taking spills and turning somersaults. Even Lya de Putti was panting at the finish, as were...