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Claire Dodd has the part of the musical comedy star and rival of Miss Chatterton for the affections of Menjou. Others in the cast include George Barbier, Noel Madison, and Henry Kolker...
...other feature is "Love, Honor, and Oh Baby," a humorous burlesque upon heart balm suits. The facial expressions of Slim Summerville, Zasu Donald Meek, and George Barbier, united in one picture afford good comedy...
...wife is up to; he has a variety of lady friends and lies to them all. He borrows $30,000,000 from his own bank to build a 102-story skyscraper. When threatened with bankruptcy he goes to take a Turkish bath where he persuades a goodnatured plutocrat (George Barbier) to save his venture. Another associate is soon a suicide, ruined by a stock deal in which Banker Dwight runs Manhattan-Seacoast up to 350 and then causes it to go rapidly down. Banker Dickson suffers from his wife's readiness to make him a cuckold. Banker Dwight...
Strangers in Love (Paramount) was not strenuously publicized before release. Its derivation, a forgotten fiction by William J. Locke, was no literary masterpiece. Its plot revolves about the old-fashioned problem of dual identity and its cast (Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, George Barbier) is only up to the Hollywood average. It would be too much to say that the finished product is brilliant or surprising, but it is consistently enjoyable. Everyone concerned with the story seems very much at home in its surroundings; the cinema has been doing this sort of thing for a long time...
Bori sang in Pelleas and Melisande, which is perhaps the most artistically perfect presentation in the Metropolitan's repertoire; again Jeritza, in Fedora; then the "novelty" of the opening week, a double bill consisting of Cornelius' Der Barbier von Bagdad and Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, this latter with Lucrezia Bori; last of all Ponselle. amid that gorgeous exoticism L' Africaine...