" Vexed, he explained that he didn""t like being misled to view a dance performance: "If I accept an invitation to a party, I do not expect to find myself at an audition," but then inquired why she liked to dance in a classic rhetorical exchange - and seemed to take an interest in the charming red-head when she answered that dancing was more important than life itself:Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?Vicky: Why do you want to live?Lermontov: WeIl, I don""t know exactly why, but, uh, I must."The love scenes between the stars, composed mostly of break-ups and reconciliations, were played out in movement to music.In early July, 1932, Z.Smith Reynolds, the youngest 20 year-old son of the cigarette patriarch R.J.Reynolds, was suspiciously murdered with a gunshot wound to the head at the family estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina."[Note: Actually, Marriott had received a phone call from either Helen or Mrs.Florian o tip him off about Marlowe.]Pretty-boy Marriott claimed he was meeting some associates shortly after midnight to complete a business ransaction for a lady friend.