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...cracks the whip, she dotes too much on her son to expose his shame, goes about instead captivating his bride and his boss (Larry Keating) and foiling the mean schemes of the boss's playboy son (James Lorimer). At times, the story pushes her role uncomfortably close to Stella Dallas; even then, she indicates that, properly used, she has a talent for pathos as well as comedy...
Time marches on. Last week Manhattanites were looking over a review of 40 years of abstract art with utter calm. Pictures by such oldtimers as John Marin, Lyonel Feininger and Joseph Stella-which once titillated the advance guard and horrified the public-now seemed familiar, almost conservative...
What story Ring boasts concerns a cold-blooded young man-about-town who hires a pretty young nobody (Stella Andrew) to come to the ball in the hope that she can bewitch his sensitive twin brother out of the clutches of a selfish heiress. What with being so ignominiously employed and with falling in love with her callous employer, the girl has a miserable evening. But if she is wretched from being poor and in love and not in society, so are most of those who are rich and in society and not really in love, who go yawning through...
...brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews makes the ballrina a gentle, sympathetic personality...
...modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...