Word: vixen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood has progressed a lot less than it may want people to think. The Kenmore's twelve-year-old adaptation of Sir J. M. Barrie's story of a newly hired little minister who wins over both a Scotch village and a vixen shows this very well. For "The Little Minister" is among the best movie entertainment to reach Boston in a long time...
...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...
...died six months ago, his neighbors in Kristiansund knew him as Hugo Koehler, retired lithographer. But in his safe he left papers that Norwegian courts thought authentic. The papers said that Rudolf, in the lovers' hideaway at Mayerling, had accused Maria of gossiping about political intrigues. The little vixen raged back at him, bashed in his skull with a champagne bottle. Promptly Rudolf's valet, Josef Loschek, shot her dead...
...Koppei't got his cedar chest back from his one time fiancee. It's in excellent condition and Gordon will sell it to anyone who still has hopes. As for him, his dreams are shattered and he's thinking of going to sea for life to spite the little vixen...
...part in the play, that of the All-American Five Letter Female, goes to Libby Devolder. She plays the part admirably in the beginning of the play, but when the time comes to throw away her mask and step into the open as the nasty little package of feminine vixenity that she really is, she fails dismally. She does not seem to be able to register the depth of emotion called for. In short, she makes the audience hate her while she is playing the vixen in ewe's clothing, and then does not live up to that hatred when...