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...Marry With Love" is no blot on the escutcheons of Warner Baxter or Myrna Loy, for the script's the script--stretch it, pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize...
Jock Wallace (Warner Baxter) married Mary with a high heart and the assistance, as best man, of his friend Bill Hallam (Ian Hunter) who had also loved her with dogged devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life...
...news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even the mental attitudes of the periods dealt with. Carpers will find a few inaccuracies: "This is the Voice of Experience" in 1929 ("The Voice of Experience" did not become a nationwide radio feature till 1933); Warner Baxter's 1936-style shoulder pleats...
Parole (Universal) is a brisk treatise, in the great cinema tradition of cops & robbers, on the evils of the parole system. A law student (Henry Hunter), released after a two-year term for an automobile accident, falls foul of the parole board. A hardened young criminal (Alan Baxter), who knows the ropes, has no difficulties whatever. It takes a series of murders, a scandalous exposé of the methods of a rich building contractor (Alan Dinehart), quick work on the part of the parolee's onetime cellmate (Grant Mitchell) to produce reforms...
...compile this work the Harvard Committee on Research in the Social Sciences has tendered a grant to James P. Baxter, 3d, professor of History; Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; and Frederick Merk, associate professor of History...