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...flitting back & forth over the last four centuries with the fervor of a flea at a dog show. More upstart than experiment, Pearls of the Crown is a capricious use of cinema's ample elbow room for the somersaulting imagination and talents of 53-year-old French Stagecrafter Sacha Guitry, who wrote its story, directed it and played four of its leading parts...
Steelman Myron Taylor was again at the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. So were Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Actor Sacha Guitry. the Bishop of Winchester, Tenor Richard Tauber. rich Mrs. Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
...Coronet-sized, Esquire-angled Lilliput, "The Pocket Magazine for everyone." The other was a frank imitation of the New Yorker christened Night and Day. Both were printed on smooth paper, sold for sixpence (12?). Lilliput contains ten articles (Sam Goldwyn, Upton Sinclair), ten stories (Liam 0'Flaherty, Sacha Guitry), ten cartoons ("I think there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor...
...Cohasset. Inland Massachusetts offers the summer playgoer the famed Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge. The big show at Stockbridge this summer opened this week with experienced little Helen Ford (No Other Girl, Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann) in the title role of Director William Miles's new adaptation of Sacha Guitry's and Oscar Straus's musical, Mariette. Mr. Miles expected heavy attendance from Miss Ford's nearby hometown of Troy...
...play account of the now famous Stavisky "bucket shop" scandal, which nearly caused a French revolution several years ago. Only one major departure from historical truth can be noted--instead of ending up in the log show of New York's French Casino, as did Stavisky's wife Sacha, Kay Francis marries an English diplomat, thus suppling the customary happy ending...