Word: vina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uptown New York was written by Vina Delmar with dangerous recklessness as to motivation but with a good eye for local color. The hero and heroine meet each other in a ladies' room-which, as the cinema becomes less pastoral, is growing in popularity as a romantic setting-but thereafter the story manages to keep closer to the kitchen than the bathroom. Good sequence: Eddie taking his girl to a wrestling match, proposing to her during a flying mare. Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema...
...Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal Axelson; Joseph Santley, producer). When Vina Delmar's Bad Girl was dramatized last season it contained one brief scene in which a childbirth was indicated by means of a shadowgraph. At the time this sequence was regarded as potent, somewhat daring. Life Begins, whose entire action takes place in and around a maternity ward of a city...
WOMEN LIVE Too LONG-Vina Delmar -Earcourt, Brace ($2).- Rental libraries are rapidly popularizing the kind of novels that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer...
...PENNINGTON-Francis Brett Young-Harper ($2.50). Though Author Young might be horrified at the comparison, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington may remind you of Authoress Vina Delmar's best-selling Bad Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just...
...dialogue is even as skillful as the direction. Pungent with quips and wise-cracks, it snaps from player to player, yet is ever pointed and revealing. This reviewer, not having read the story from which the picture is taken, cannot form a comparison between them, but if Vina Delmar's novel is equal to the film, the dialogue is mighty good entertainment...