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...proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema hero of the year. He gathers Temple in his arms, tells her stupid father they should both be proud of her. In the part that George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried it out of the dead Trigger's clenched fingers...
...Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, established in 1803 in the Rue Picpus in Paris...
Readers who liked John Collier's His Monkey Wife, David Garnett's Lady into Fox, or Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue might each find something to his liking in Authoress Trevelyan's Appius & Virginia. Those who have watched babies in the nursery or monkeys in the zoo with mixed but fascinated feelings may also find it reminiscent...
...three months will the horse chestnut trees in the Champs Elysees raise their white candles in the sun, yet last week on the Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix, spring had already come. The closely guarded private openings of the grand couturiers were over. Buyers who had paid $100 per opening apiece to attend (refunded on the first order) streamed from Paris with orders for their employers and tips for newshawks on the new fashions. French actresses had been given their pick of free gowns for the spring season and the salons were opened for humble citizens who might...
...Cambridge, Mass, this week. Composer John Alden Carpenter, 56, and Ellen Waller Borden, 47, were married. Composer Carpenter's first wife, Decorator Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, died less than two years ago. Mrs. Borden, whose Cambridge aunt gave her her wedding, was divorced from Oilman-Stockbroker-Sportsman John Borden. The wedding was a quiet affair but in Chicago, where both composer and his new wife live, it was loudly publicized, set several events in motion...