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...good clean fun on board ship in "The Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert...
...role of the debutante, is attractive but the contortions which she must undergo at her own party to express her emotional ailments would usually leave the stag line undiminished. Gene Raymond is the musician whose love given Mrs. Stanhope's little machine something worthwhile. The there is Alison Skipworth, who performs creditably as the social secretary dictator with the inevitable lists
...tempest broke out in Times Square in 1931 when the prize went to Susan Glaspell's Alison's House, an unsuccessful biography of Emily Dickinson presented in a downtown theatre. Disregarded were such outstanding productions as Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Philip Barry (a top-flight playwright who has never received the prize), the sensationally hilarious Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart and, presumably on the grounds that they were not "American," Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen and Grand Hotel...
Keith's Boston Joy Stanhope Frances Dee Chris Hansen Gene Raymond Miss Vanderhoe Alison Skipworth...
...Alison Skipworth as the social commission merchant and Harry Gold as the Jewish orchestra leader and romance mender give particularly able characterizations, while Gene Raymond as the in-human lever hits a new low. In spite of his assertion that he is "four years older than you are and knows all about life" we have to believe his other gem that "I have never played with anything except a violin...