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...what he calls "the children's hour between the dark and the daylight'' when his staff assembles at his desk to dispatch departmental business before going home. Dr. Moley lives with Mr. Mullen at the Carlton Hotel, three squares from his office. He drives a sleek new Packard roadster. He takes no exercise, plays no golf, says: "I know of no scientific proof that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Mrs. Moley and the twins have been in Santa Barbara since September, will probably remain there until au- tumn. Dr. Moley likes...
...Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel who for the occasion was Napoleon III. Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother...
Late one afternoon last week a sleek grey taxicab purred up to the Army Building in downtown Manhattan and out of it stepped a youth named Fiore Rizzo. Out also stepped three other young men. The taxi meter registered 65?. The four passengers had only 50? between them...
...picture. Tod Browning is a director who has always been fascinated by the macabre. John Gilbert, completing with this film an expensive contract which he signed before talkies demolished his box-office value, is determined to make his last cinema characterizations as ugly as his early ones were sleek. The story is about a steel worker (Gilbert) who humiliates a mistress (Mae Clark) whom he really loves because he thinks she is unworthy to marry his best friend (Robert Armstrong). It might have made a strong picture if they had not been under the wholly erroneous impression that it needed...
...order of their importance, the qualities essential to young female cinema stars are: 1) looks, 2) ability to wear clothes, 3) ability to act. Katharine Hepburn looks, as most promising cinemactresses now do, faintly like Greta Garbo. She wears sleek clothes with severe insouciance. She acts with intelligent assurance, speaks in a strong, flat, curiously pleasant voice with the inflections of a polite upbringing in Hartford, Conn. Miss Hepburn did her first acting at Bryn Mawr, where she graduated in 1929, acquired the defect of talking too fast. Among other requisites for a U. S. Garbo, she has greenish eyes...