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...True Confession. Midnight does it. The story-about a chorus girl who lands in Paris on a rainy night with no assets but a low-cut evening dress -is not as fresh as a mountain daisy. But with Claudette Colbert as the chorus girl, Don Ameche as the taxi-driver who meets her at the station, Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore as the millionaire who finances her, it looks as bright and fetching as an artful nosegay. Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which...
...headed waitress is still waiting for that date. Waiting likewise in thousands of U. S. roadside taverns, "jook joints," "pig joints," barbecue stands, taxi-dance halls, are thousands of other "dating" waitresses, B (bar) girls, "carhops," itinerant prostitutes. The dairy farmer's correspondents are also wondering what happened to that good catch...
...matter how varied her roles, Clandette Colbert gilds them with her own delightful personality and carries a Midas-touch of success. Despite its title, "Midnight" takes her from moonlight romance to a light-hearted Paris where she can romp with royalty but feel more at home with taxi-drivers. It is a sprightly picture, never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly...
...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...
...Flemish Academy of Science and King Leopold gave the proposal his royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans were waiting for him. As he stepped out of his taxi, 200 of them pummeled him to the pavement, shouted "Resign! Resign...