Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brood of Ducklings −Hero Locritus tracks down the villain who has absconded with his sister Fanny, only to discover that the same villain has kept his, Locritus's, sweetheart Margaret out of her inheritance. At a single stroke Locritus thereupon restores Fanny to her rightful suitor, restores himself and the inheritance to Margaret, and they all live happily...
Ibsen himself seems to have walked a tightrope in conceiving its plot. It is, in its own terms, the story of a woman unable to forget the hypnotic eyes of a suitor. But beneath this there is a story told in symbols, a story of the lure of the great mystery of the sea. To blend these two moods is a task requiring great skill. Miss Yurka and her Actors' Theater company meet the demands at times and at others they fail...
...embarrassed, who wins a treasure hunt and marries a paste-board realtor. So light a continuity suits the demands of airy tunes and jokes, but the moments in which hijackers threaten the treasure hunters, and those in which Leading Lady Lawrence is compelled to grow tempestuous about her silly suitor, do not. With any other actress, the show would be a flop; but Gertrude Lawrence makes it more than acceptable entertainment...
...congratulate the Captain for sinking the Istria? Out of Billie Dove's testimony the story flows in retake with dignity and pictorial effectiveness - the night the War began when the officers' wives came on board for dinner and Billie Dove, delayed by the importunities of a onetime suitor, one of the officers, was caught on board; how Soussanin, a loose-lipped fellow, enemy of the captain, detected her in the cabin of her onetime wooer and made trouble. And how the suitor, Donald Reed, killed him and was killed himself in battle with the Istria. The gentlemen...
...plot. Those reasons-Gershwin music. Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw-are missing in the movie. Instead there is Colleen Moore, never a great inducement for movie going, hardly more than usual in this offering, which tells of a noble English girl who, besieged by ennui and an unwanted suitor, goes down to the sea in a small ship, drifts into a storm, is rescued by rum-runners...