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...takes money from unsuspecting fools in the game of Ace, King, Queen. His name is Mace, and he falls in love with a girl who has been filched of all her money by his partner in crime. The girl is Sylvia Sidney, and you are mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress as can be found in Hollywood today. One may object to her sensual lips (which...
Mary of Scotland (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by the Theatre Guild). Nearly 400 years after her birth, any new play or book about Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, is news in the hope that it may explain why Mary is still potent to make historians and poets weep. She was Queen of Scotland a few days after birth, Queen of France at 18, true Queen of England according to Catholic Europe. She was tall, slim, dark, with an oval, plump-cheeked face like Film Actress Diana Wynyard's. She had beauty, brains, charm that she never turned...
...screams Ruth Chatterton in a moment of high mechanical emotion; but alas, she does go on, and on, and on, until the audience of "Female," current epic at the Metropolitan, is ready to weep with sympathy for the poor girl so driven by the desperate struggle for cakes and caviar. The case of Ruth Chatterton should be taken up by a Society for the Prevention of. If she could act, she might be a beautiful actress, if she were beautiful. About all that can be said for her is summarized in the title of the movie...
Reader Alma Jacobsen in her letter-TIME, Aug. 2 wants all of us to take down our hair and weep over the sad state of affairs endured by America's domestic servants. These poor souls who work 24 hours per day for almost nothing, and are cast into the mustiness of the family cellar when not in use. are few and far between. High wages or low wages, the average domestic servant employed in the American home is about as belligerent, independent, and uncooperative as a "spoiled child." They do less and expect more out of life than does...
...From the tristes (which are the blues of Spanish America) to the saudades of Brazil, the whole Continent weeps and regrets in music; the Indians on their flutes, made from a hollowed human tibia, weep for the Incas, Brazilian Negroes weep for Africa (though they have benefited considerably by their change), the gentlemen of fashion in Santiago weep for Piccadilly, the intelligenzia weep for Moscow, and lovely women for Paris...