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Since 1926, with the exception of one sabbatical year, Eva Le Gallienne has been charging small admissions to see great plays at her Civic Repertory Theatre in Manhattan's out-of-the-way 14th Street. She has not been without kudos. In 1930 she produced Pulitzer Prizewinning Alison's House. As the years rolled by, intelligent folk who might go down to 14th Street twice a year to enjoy Chekhov or Ibsen, came to regard the Civic Repertory as complacently as they would the Public Library. But water is cherished when the well begins to run dry. There...
...deathbed to dispense his fortune in million dollar lots to names in the city directory, acts consistently well throughout the production. Charles Laughton gives the best, but unfortunately shortest, performance; Charlie Ruggles makes a very amusing clerk in a chinaware store; Wynne Gibson overacts as the prostitute; Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields provide much needed comic relief; and May Robson, in one of her first appearances on the screen, gives one of the best pieces of acting in the picture. Individually, the shots are generally well-directed and effective, but as a whole the picture has too little continuity...
...This is sordid, romantic, inaccurate transcription of the newspaper accounts of the life and death of Mr. Ivar Krenger, the man who embarrassed Lee, Higginson. The detail is very lurid and satisfying. "He Learned About Women" (which did nearly get squeezed out of this) is an amusing farce, with Alison Skipworth and Stuart Erwin overacting no more than is humanly possible...
...Raft) is unable to find anyone who will cash a good check for him. He ends by trading it for one night's shelter, to the proprietor of a 10? lodging house who uses it to light a cigar. A bedazzled Marine (Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress (Alison Skipworth) and her husband (W. C. Fields), a condemned murderer (Gene Raymond) are also among Mr. Glidden's beneficiaries, as is a miserable fat clerk (Charles Laughton). This clerk waddles to the office of the president of his concern, pauses to straighten his necktie, then opens the door. What...
Fenway--"He learned about Women." Alison Skipworth and Stuart Erwin...