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April 12, 1941,
Serial Story
BETTE DAVIS-CHARLES BOYER
in ALL THIS,
and HEAVEN TOO
Warner Bros-First National Picturixation of the Novel by RACHEL FIELD
Serialized by HARRY LEE
THE STORY THUS FAR: Mademoiselle Henriette, a governess, is tried for the murder of her employer's wife and acquitted, and later teaches in a New York girls' school. Her pupils taunt her with her past, and she tells them her story. While living in the home of the Duke and Duchess de Prasiin, and caring for their four children, the insane jealousy of the Duchess, makes her fe unendurable. Paris newspapers: publish stories of differences between the Duke and Duchess and the lat- ter tries to get rid of the governess. The father of the Duchess urges Henriette to stay, and plans that the Duke and Duchess be seen to» gether in public places till the gossip dies out. The Duke urges her to stay for the sake of the children--and his own, and she consents.
CHAPTER V
and walted for the letter of recommenda- tion the Duchess had promised her. The
rent.
landlady at last began to dun her for the
Then one day the Duke called with the children.
THE Marechal Sebastiani, father of the mad Duchess de Praatin begged Mlle. Henrietto not to leave his daughter's Mousehold, and she consented. Ile planned that the Duke and Duchess should be seen more often in public, and he arranged for and Raynald-brought their beloved Milo, A grand ball to be attended by all the
The children-Louise, Isabelle, Berthe tenzielle gifts of trulis and flowers and were overjoyed at seeing her again-but
big-wigs of the French capital, including when the Duke found out that his wife King Louis-Philippe himself.
Mile. had made no reply to her repeated re- It was during the party that Henriette found the three daughters of quests for the promised letter of recom her employers, in nighties and robes, mendation, no drove home in a rage. peeping through the banisters of the The Duchess Informed him with un- grand stairway, at the brillant scene canny glee that she not anly would never below, Bhe whisked them gaily off to send the latter, but that the would see bed, heard their prayers, kissed them to it that her victim #hould never get em- goodnight, and went to the classroom. ployment. luc tirado ended suddenly, She had been in the moonlit quiet but however, for she saw with horror the a short time when the Duke came light of insanity in the eyes of the Duke, lonely, bewildered figure, weary of the Theo" she shrieked as he drew nearer hypocritical smiles and bows of the guests, her, "Theo, you wouldn't!""
Ho asked about the children from whom When at fast she lay still he stole from he had been separated lately and said the room. that the whole family, including herself, Henrietle was sleeping Atfully in her were leaving on the marrow, to apend attic, when the landlady burst into the the Holidays in his childhood home in the room. "The Duchess de Préalin has been country.
murdered!" she cried, "Chis is what
At the appointed time the next day you've brought on mel" Henriette and the children waited in, the Two gendarmes led Henrietta away and parriage at the door, Tuggage piled high locked her in a cell of the Conciergerio. behind them. The Duke, trying to con- Newboys hawked extras in the streets. ocal his annoyance at his wife's delay,, Louis-Philippe, the Citizen King, look- inally went to her room.
ing from the window of the "council
"When you're free—I'll be waiting!".
He found her frenzied over the fact that chamber at the angry, milling mob in the he had paid no heed to the letter she courtyard, must have qualled at thought had slipped under his door the night be- of the future. "To shield the Duke do fore. I'd planned that we might begin Praslin, may cost you your throne, Your this journey to-day," she cried, "united Majesty!" said Pasquier, President of the wa once were by the hollest of tlest House of Peers, "I've prepared an arder But no You delight in torturing meas for his arrest! It only needs your signa- one day, picase Heaven, I shall torture turas" Reluctantly the King signed the you! I'll not set foot outside this house paper, The Duke was arrested and quen- with the woman you've chosen to replace toned but he would in no way impleate mel"
his chlidren's governess, Mite. Henriette.
Her voice had risen to a scream, but Young Henry Field, the American prea- when he begged her to speak more calmly cher, called on her in her prison cell. Ho that the chlidren might not hear, she only had gone to her lodgings, brought the shrieked the louder and ran from the few belongings which the police had loft, Toom. The Duke fallowed her and when visited the Praslin home, found that the he came out alone, later, his hand had children were with their grandfather in been wounded. He urged Henriette to go Corsica, and offered to get her a lawyer. on with the children as neither he nor When she refused he said that he would their mother would be able to go to do walling to help her. Molur.
Mile, Henriette was being questioned in
THE
TEN BEST
By Campbell Dixon
THE MARK OF
ZORRO
London. few directors and stars, too THE past year has been prob- many bombs--British studios ably the most difficult year in performed most creditably in four decades of film production. 1940. But the fact remains that And it has produced some of the for the first time in a number of finest films. I have before me a years Hollywood dominated the list of what seemed to me the film world in quality as well as ten best productions of 1939 in quantity.
Dawn Patrol
A Man To Remem-
ber
The Ware Case
¡Gens Du Voyage
The Fall Of France'
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all planned and most of them "Pinocchio" is, by common finished in time of peace. Here consent, Disney's masterpiece; it is:
The Great Dictator" was brave and bold experiment, and Hostages Qual de Bruunes
Chaplin pulls it off, I doubt if La Bete Humaine
the screen has ever given us any- Stage Coach →
thing better in its. way than Only Angels Have Wuthering Heights "Ninotchka"; and in "Of Mice
Wings
and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath" Hollywood revealed al- WHAT has 1940 to set against most for the first time conscious- them? The answer is as ness of the beauty of poor men's tonishing, when you remember struggle for daily bread. that British studios have. Wen Pinocchio The Great Dictator starved for capital and that the of alee and Men Ninotchka most brilliant film school in the The Grapes of The Stars Look
Wrath world that of France is dead. The Mortal Storm Pastor Hall I doubt if a finer drama was The Magic Bullet Our Town made anywhere last year than the British "Stars Look Down"; Omissions
a
Down
were
THE mark of Zorro was a Z.
He slashed it on a wall or any handy bit of scenery when he'd carried out a peculiarly daring bit of vengeance. Under the noses of tyrants or at the behest of bashful senoritas, Zoiro went to it.
Tyrone Power, in this story of the Los Angeles of 1820, reap- pears, cloaked and rapiered, in the film made famous by Douglas
Fairbanks senior.
In those days the cringing slaves of the city were exploited by their masters and racked with every kind of cruelty and lash, and it took "the masked
avenger," Zorro, to run his sword
through an oppressor in the morning and woo a mantilla'ð dame in the evening.
Tyrone Power is a pretty good hand at this sort of game, and his duel with Basil Rathbone is one of those brilliantly staged affairs that make this story something outsize in thrillers.
Linda Darnell is the mantil- la'd dame, and lovely she looks, and Eugene Pallette gurgles deeply as a priest.
A very fine show, indeed, and probably just as enjoyable, and technically better, than the ori- ginal version. Showing at the King's Theatre.
All This And Heaven Too
the story of souls under the jack- boot has never been told more 11 displace "Our Town," Thornton MOST readers, I suspect, would movingly than in "Pastor Hall"; Wilder's tender study of the lives and though I can't squeeze them behind prim small-town facades, for drama into my ten best. "Gas-light," u comedy more amusing or "Night Train to Munich," "The wiseus punch. And I am fully NO girl has a more consistently conscious of the omissions, "North-
woeful time on the screen Proud Valley," "The Girl in the West Passage" seemed to me ex-than Bette Davis, but she is so News," "Contraband," "Saloon tremely good, but its quality was all Bar"
and "Convoy" were all derived from the book; "Gone With superb an actress that her most first-rate jobs of commercial film the Wind" made the mistake of hang-troublous roles never depress us. Ing a big, heavy, gorgeous garment I can think of no higher tri- making.
on a mean and frail line; "Elizabeth bute to her histrionic powers. From France, the source of and Essex," "The Old Mald," and
Treated at painstaking length Tool roughly half the most distin- "All This and Heaven,
vehicles for Bette Davis; from the Rachel Field novel, guished pictures of 1938 and
of tryland some picture 1939, we
superb negra comedy ever seen, in texture of fine writing. It tells charming "Ila Etalent Neufs frame of unutterable banality; and of a young children's governess Celebataires"; "La Charrette Sherwood's "The Spirit of the in a French ducal household in Fantome," in which Duvivier's People," the Fields-Mae West "My
Little
and genius for the macabre shone Torrid Zone" were all disappoint-
Chickadee,"
Cagney's 1846. fitfully; two goodish melodramas, ing. "The Postman Always Rings I can find little fault with "Lucky Twice" and "Pieges" and one or Partners," "The Primrose Path," and two museum pieces like "L'Eper- "The Wizard of Oz," and if anyone vier" (circa 1982), featuring the wants to include one or all of them Here, then, it is all right with me. late George Grossmith.
is my list:
Thousands will writhe at my ten. Hollywood's Opportunity
is why producers make roughly 600
may, the Duke arrived Henriette's dis- Sport, when worch came that the Duke do CONSIDERING their diffeul. To them I can only suggest that that
Praslin had taken poison and was at the
in lile old home point of death. She was taken to him by town. It was All Hallows Eve and the Pasquier, but though in extreme agony children, excited about witches and gob- he refused to say whether or not he had lins, were overjoyed to have film to share been in love with the governess. But to their fun. He stayed over All Saints' Day old Pierre, the faithful family servant he gay as the youngsters, and grateful whispered that he had taken his la to have the chance for A talk with rather than send her to her death. The Henristle,
Duke, dying without the last rites of tho Then he went back to Paris,
Church, was buried in unconsecrated
,
When Henrietie came later with the ground.
children
Duchess to confront the wrathful Mile, Henrietto-free at last from every
time you have gone too prison but her memories was taken by AT, Mlie Delury" the panted The Henry Field to friends of his in Paris. time you are to leave this house, into Some months later he brought her word which you've brought evil and sini".
When the Duke, having overheard his French in the girls school in New York. that she had been employed as teacher of wife's insane words, came to Henriette's where the now was roon, he was desperate. "The fith of
At the conclusion of the story of her the high-mindedness he exclaimed, life, the puptis who had taunted her were bolleve that you and I are the sort in tears. Ey every means in their power of people the gossip columns paint! It's a they tried to show her that she had won popular picture the wife and mother left their respect and their love, deserted, ill and suffering, while the hus band openly consorta with-Oh, it's too the day's work was over, and as they Henry Field was waiting for her when shamefull"
241, Henriette found it a heart-break- first snow of the, year, ha said: "There walked across Gramercy Park through the ing task to say good-bye to the children aro many kinds of love between man and and to their father. "Hut where will you woman, Henriettet I promised you ange go" he asked brokenly, "What will you that you would find a heaven on earth, dot" "I'll have my work," she answered and I'm going to keep that promise. I t bravely There'll be other positions, takes a lifetime of devotioni other children!" She took a cheap room
THE END
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The Duchess (Barbara O'Neil)) has a jealousy complex amounting to mania, and when she is found murdered the governess is arrested with the Duc.
He takes poison, but she is
acquitted and tells the story to a class of cruel precocious Ameri- can brats-which I found the most jarring part of the tale.
Acting throughout is brilliantly sensitive Miss Davis' tactful en- durance and Mr Boyer's eloquent restraint especially.
and June
Two French children are exqui- sitely played by Virginia Weidler
Lockhart. Period atmosphere, with its family pomp and touches of Court life, adds to the sombre force.
but with tenderness in plenty to re- A good production, terribly long, lleve the hard tragedy. Showing at the Queen's and Alhambra,
The Westerner
Gary Cooper takes down his spurs and saddle again in The Westerner," all elaborately produced outdoor
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