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Whether she is jitterbugging with gangling Roy Lester (see cut), her "waltzing mouse," or paying off an insistent suitor ("Listen, tall, dark and bad-mannered!"), Maisie The Taxi Dancer is delightful to look at. One part Jean Harlow, one part Mae West, she is an honest and fetching carbon copy of a type of U.S. female to be found at Coney Island on any hot summer Sunday...
...with Jane Eyre, she found herself with just what she wanted-a sophisticated play about high life in Philadelphia's Main Line society with a glamorous, smart-talking leading role especially stitched to her lovely measurements by her friend, Playwright Philip Barry. With the backing of a onetime suitor, Aviator Howard Hughes, she bought herself an interest in the play, including movie rights. It ran a year on Broadway is still going strong after six months on the road...
...house in the East Sixties is rich Doctor Talley, completely cut off from his children and the rest of the world; his son, Philip, useless to society and hopelessly drifting; his daughter, Avis, bitter, cynical, trying to rip hell out of the old order through the Youth Movement; her suitor, as useless as Philip, but dividing his time between the Columbia graduate school and Madison Ave. bars. Into the turmoil comes Enid Fuller, woman poetess, who still clings to her faith in the good people, and Manfried Geist, a European refugee, already destroyed inside by the forces of hate...
...Chamber of Commerce, creates a fine job for herself at the age of 60. Mild Mrs. Lee teaches bridge to the new-rich. Brash young Lucy resolves to have a career before marriage, teaches tennis, finds fear of a Chinatown plot leading her into the arms of her patient suitor. Though The House of Lee will scarcely be immortal, Gertrude Atherton herself seems to have a pretty good chance...
...LADY WEPT ALONE-Carolyn Byrd Dawson-Crime Club ($2). Miss Matilda Brockett, the Grand Old Lady of the whole town, and Sheriff Tim Hammond untangle the jams into which Jay Halliday's shooting plunges his wife, exwife, Andy the ex-wife's suitor...