Word: vell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bountry. Mon Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. For movie rights to Mutiny and Pitcairn's Island they received a total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made so much money for Hollywood that they had to keep from being exploited. They live on opposite sides of Papecte, meet once a week to discuss their writing and great wealth...
...vehicle for Greta Garbo's statuesque soul-struggles "The Painted Vell" is effective, but as film drama it's rather slow about getting things done and rather naively melodramatic. The Cambridge sophisticates should get quite a bit of fun laughing at the serious sequences, of which there are one or two really priceless ones. Garbo is her usual self--some seem to like it but this corner is still convinced that the only interesting thing about her is her popularity an apparent triumph of publicity department machinations. Robert Marshal continues to be the capable English...