Word: saris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evenings for Sale (Paramount) is a pleasant little program picture which would probably be an unpleasant little program picture but for the presence in it of Herbert Marshall and Sari Maritza. Marshall is Count von Degenthal who, in the failing of his family's fortunes, has been forced to capitalize his good manners in the ignoble profession of gigolo. Maritza is the pretty daughter of a wealthy businessman who admires the count but despises his calling. When a fat U. S. widow (Mary Boland) buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment...
Monte Carlo Madness (UFA). Bombarded by Hollywood cinemas with for- eign dialog, European producers have tried to retaliate by making pictures in English. Trying it herein, UFA wisely chose a comedy of the type which German Director Ernst Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer...
Small (5 ft. 1 in.) Sari Maritza chose her name because she wanted a Viennese sounding one that no one would mispronounce. She considered her real one- Patricia Detering-Nathan- insufficiently romantic. Daughter of a British Army officer who owned a coal mine at Tientsin, she formed an inclination to be a cinemactress ten years ago while passing through Hollywood to England for her schooling. In 1928, when she was 18, a small part in an Austrian cinema got her a job with an English producing company. She was chosen for the lead in The Water Gypsies because Director Basil...
...Later Saint Gandhi sat in a dry creek bed while a chorus of sari-clad Indian women sang a hymn, translated as follows by Indian correspondents...