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...frayed tassel from Hollywood's lunatic fringe, it includes performances by Warren William as a ferociously whimsical detective, Bette Davis, last year's Academy Award winner, in the trifling role of a jewel thief, and a platinum blonde newcomer named Marie Wilson as a squeaky secretary. Typical shot: the detective rebuking a baby-faced gunman for wearing a beret...
...hand and writhing. Fredric March takes advantage of the camera and makes the transitions less of a tour de force. The face of the handsome young British sawbones becomes by barely perceptible degrees of trick photography the visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love...
...Editor, during those trying seven years of Van Tassel to Forker to Drake during which Harper's Bazaar became a valuable property, was the now noted observer, successful Adman and happy TIME reader...
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...take one leaf from the hard-won laurels of me-old-friend-and-pal Chet Van Tassel, he was never the Editor of Harper's Bazaar. Nor was it under his business managership that it became a "valuable property." Chester hoed and planted and weeded and brought it to bud but succeeding Business Manager Eugene Forker, now publisher of the New York American, was the force that actually brought things about for the further successful succession of Business Manager Fredric Drake, now at it at the old stand and popularly known as The Right Man in The Right Place...