Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father who is a cross between Mr. Barrett of Wimpole Street and Elsie Dinsmore's papa. But just as the audience's heart begins to bleed for the lass, she herself turns out to be a cross between Lizzie Borden and Lady Macbeth, orders her suitor to kill the old man. When he accidentally kills somebody else, she calmly gets father hanged for the murder...
After that, the suitor decides he will be better off single...
...parsimonious headwaiter (Mischa Auer), next risks the headwaiter's savings on a frantic effort to find herself a rich fiance. Unfortunately, no sooner does she find what looks like a good prospect than she discovers that the young executive whom she encountered as a model is her suitor's best friend and determined not to allow him to be victimized by a female fortune hunter. From here, The Rage of Paris plunges rapidly through every impossible variant of a not-too-original situation. Best line: comment of the driver of a milk truck when Nicole, wearing an elaborate...
HASTY WEDDING-Mignon G. Eberhart -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The marriage of a Chicago heiress, coming after the murder of her ex-suitor, arouses the suspicions of Detective Jacob Wait. Good characterizations, a sustained atmosphere of horror; one of the best mysteries to come out of Author Eberhart's typewriter...
...widow Thomas is an extremely loquacious, scatter-brained person, who, is develops, is meant to be irresistibly attractive in a plump, helpless, middle-aged way. Her charm is unfortunately obscured, with the result that a perfectly honest suitor, a sinister looking Italian who deals in rugs, is mistaken in the first act by most of the audience for a crafty villain with some base design to his wooing. He subsequently appears, however, for no worse end than to supply the impoverished family with some sorely needed cash at the opportune moment. This change of face is not intended...