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... JrTtc Freda Hr'ucc Fnvkhart Hollywood at any rate has no established style even remotely analagous to the elegant artificiality in which Oscar Wilde set his epigrams. Even if properly delivered, his torrents of verbal wit might well overwhelm most films. Yet although little is left but the creaking sentimental plots which Wilde oversowed with his sparkles, the delusion obstinately persists ...

... in I^Vvis Bohemian Pleasures Now, in the tiny, lamplit garden, one enjoys one's favourite Russian dishes No wonder that, in bygone days, people either left Paris after the Grand Prix, or hid themselves behind closed shutters if they were unable to get away. For this is the time of year when out-of-town friends-- not forgetting the friends-of-friends, armed with letters-- are passing through ...

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... Sabretache (Pictures In The Fire) ON top of all this racing and other hubbub (and there is a buzz about impending scandals), and omitting all the ugly war clouds, we have this ticklish situation over the Lords' Ladies. I have it on unimpeachable authority that, whilst at present none of the female members of the Peerage has any in tention of casting herself in the path of the runners in the ...

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... AT THE PICTURES The Tiibitsvh Twtaeh Trothi Km vp Lnvkluirt WATCHING a Hungarian colonel with all the Fairbanks gallantry and glamour storm a Ruritanian castle where Betty Grable makes as consciously improbable a countess as any ever played by Jeanette MacDonald, I wondered why Ernst Lubitsch had not been remembered among the illustrious dead who were honoured at the Belgian Film Festival. ...