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...native village, beats her, lets her go back to Cairo to marry her Britisher, abducts her once more just before the ceremony. For cinemaddicts of the current crop-who may be less ready than their predecessors to believe that sheiks are irresistible per se -Authors Edgar Selwyn & Anita Loos contributed a new mite to the formula: the heroine explains Jamil's fascination for her by telling him that her mother was an Egyptian...
...quiet amusement at the part she is playing, should please. Hugh O'Connell, the droll one who cracked Indian nuts throughout Once in a Lifetime, demonstrates first-rate ability in a part more serious for him than usual. Forsaking All Others (by Edward Roberts & Frank Cavett; Arch Selwyn, producer). It took four directors, a reformed magician and a heavy-lidded lady who is a Congressman's daughter and a Senator's niece to get this lush comedy in production...
Evensong (by Beverley Nichols & Edward Knoblock; Arch Selwyn & Sir Barry Jackson, producers). Glib, ultra-British young Beverley Nichols used to be employed on the personal staff of Dame Nellie Melba. He cashed in on this experience when he wrote Evensong, a novel about a declining diva's race against time. Dramatized and produced in London, the story had a remunerative run. Produced for the first time on a U. S. stage, Evensong again sets one to wondering if the English often go to the theatre just to get out of the rain...
...Grand Hotel and other recent films, all the action in Skyscraper Souls takes place under one roof. Director Edgar Selwyn, who thinks writers for the cinemas deserve more credit than directors, had a less vivid mob to handle than the one in American Madness, but he disposed them so ably about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...
...Francisco Bernard Goldfish, brother of Film Producer Samuel Goldwyn, had his name changed to Fish, He explained that Brother Samuel had copy righted the name Goldwyn, adopted after he joined forces with Producers Archi bald & Edgar Selwyn in 1916. A third brother, Ben Goldfish of Chicago, has already become Fish...