Word: vicki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divine Drudge (by Vicki Baum & John Golden; John Golden, producer). Based on a Baum novel (And Life Goes On) serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine this play has none of the swift movement, the arresting reality which made Grand Hotel a smash hit and a pattern for imitators. It unfolds a devious tale about a smalltown German doctor (Walter Abel) and his wife (Mady Christians). For seven years she has assisted him in perfecting what he believes to be a momentous medical discovery. Suddenly she runs away from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home...
...immediate plans: a cinema biography of the late Flo Ziegfeld, written by his widow Billie Burke; a dramatization of Only Yesterday to make all but youngsters recall the Nineteen Twenties;-'Charles G. Norris' lusty Zest; a story by Harold Bell Wright called Ma Cinderella, and Vicki Baum's I Give My Love...
...Jewish folksongs to his guests for hours on end. Sultry summer evenings bring excellent open-air music to a dozen U. S. cities, whereby musicians are kept busy from one formal winter season to the next. In San Mateo, smart suburb of San Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson...
...Jimmy Dolan's doings demonstrate, they would be far happier about their ledgers. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gives an intelligent performance and manages to make his fisticuffs seem lively. I Loved You Wednesday (Fox) is the account of one exciting evening in the career of an indecisive danseuse named Vicki Meredith (Elissa Landi). At the beginning of the evening she is planning to elope with a dynamic but gentle civil engineer (Warner Baxter). Before they have time to arrange the details, she has a caller, Randall Williams (Victor Jory) who hopes that Vicki still remembers their romance which ended years...
...high time that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences adopted a Baum's Law to punish, with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp...