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...sending her away for a while. Cruising to Buenos Aires the attractive Diane meets Michael Brady (Clark Gable) and this time Cupid's aim is sure. However Diane realizes Field's dependence upon her and returns to marry him. Her life with Field only serves to sharpen her realization of her love for Brady and after a tremendous struggle within herself she is finally saved by the generous defection of Field from the scene. This hackneyed plot is easily counterbalanced by the attractiveness of Miss Crawford and Mr. Gable's genial masculinity. The lines are good and the photography excellent...
Wines and beer will be on the menu to sharpen the aesthetic sense of even the dullest dullard, while Conductor Arthur Fielder will present a program of light music of popular as well as familiar airs. Tickets for tables at box office prices, range from $2.00 on the floor to $1.50 and $1.00 in the balcony. The music lover suffering from impecuniosity will be admitted...
Critics never sharpen their pencils until after the opening night, so Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson passed as a patriotic gesture. Like the openings which have gone before, the Metropolitan's 1933-34 season began as a social spectacle. Chief interest seemed to be that John Pierpont Morgan was there, rabid on the subject of photographers; that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was wearing a diamond stomacher; and that Emil Katz, the Metropolitan's caterer who during Prohibition bought William K. Vanderbilt's cellar for $70,000, was selling champagne again, for $2.50 a glass...
...Magazine. He used to tear off hundreds of short stories a year, but now confines himself to seven or eight, with one or two full-length ones on the side. He "taps" (typewrites) methodically from 10 a. m. until one, rewriting everything at least three times to concentrate and sharpen the effervescent prolixity of his style. Like most humorists he folds inward in public but is seldom without a rejoinder when pressed. An infirmity kept him, to his deep chagrin, from active service in the War. When queried about it rather nastily once he swallowed his anger and coolly replied...
...Port Hope, Ont, hearing that university students sometimes took small doses of strychnine poison to sharpen their wits, High-School Student Gwendolyn Thomas took some strychnine before an examination, died screaming...