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Narrator of The Last of Mr. Norris is a young English Communist-intellectual. On a train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young...
...Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
Resonantly in his wig and gown Counsellor J. P. Eddy stood up in London's High Court last week and intoned: "Thou shalt not covet ... his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that...
Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...
...pretty women nor clever but they are really nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree which shed upon her various garments including the saddest sort of red wig but an fond she is really quite nice. To finish the summation, the youth are sophisticated, inconsiderate and no more comely than their forebears, but, you no doubt are ahead of us this time, an fond they are really nice brats. With such a group of characters it would be difficult...