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...Miss Colbert's début with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...
...Secret runs for 60 minutes. The story of the woman who lives through that half-hour-30 minutes from the time she leaves her husband to run away with another man, until, her sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi to take them to the station, she is back as hostess in her husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton...
...sits on the porch steps and Vincent Jones, taxi-driving son of the Second Floor Joneses, slides over beside her. '' . . . Say, sweetie, I'll give you two bucks if you'll let me snap your garter." He is overheard by Sammy Kaplan, who loves Rose. Kaplan makes a feeble attempt to attack Jones, but Vincent is far too strong, easily spins Sammy to the ground. Mrs. Jones appears. "Now Vincent, you mustn't do that...
Murder. Some of the Park Central's guests thought they heard a shot. A taxi-driver thought he heard another cab backfire. Anyway, Rothstein was found inside a locked service entrance on the ground floor of the Park Central, staggering, with a bullet in his groin. He declined to say where or by whom he had been shot. He soon died. Outside the hotel, a discharged gun was found, dented by a fall of perhaps three stories...
...Paris, the taxicab drivers are wild and rapacious; they drive fast and they frighten old ladies, by sneering, into paying them exorbitant prices. As a result they are not popular among women; one taxi-driver in Paris, a mild though bearded fellow, posted last week this notice on his cab: "Wanted: a wife. I want to marry. 1 own this cab. The girl must be well...