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...Warner Baxter, "The Robin Hood of El Dorado," shoots the cursed gringos out of California to the tune of pounding hoofs and boiling blood in one of the most virile pictures of the year. The redoubtable Joachim Murietta is sympathetically apologized for. "Unguarded Hour," with Franchot Tone and Loretta Young, is a collection of harrowing crises, foremost of which is the breaking of the district attorney's spectacular prosecution, simultaneous with his being accused of murder...
...James P. Baxter, 3d., associate professor of History, has also been appointed to a full professorship...
...happy young farmer, Joaquin (Warner Baxter),runs wild after his farm has been seized, his young wife (Margo) raped, his brother lynched, himself flogged. Gathering a huge band of outlaws, he ravages the State from end to end, not, like Robin Hood, to protect the common people, but solely for bloody revenge. Result is the goriest picture of the year, well-acted, beautifully photographed, but prevented from being a second Viva Villa by its sententious moralizing, its frequent digression into scenes suited only to light operetta...
...King of Burlesque" catches Warner Baxter between a crusty society dame (Mona Barrie) and poor, but nonetheless faithful, love (Alice Faye). True love wins out in the end, of course, for while Park Avenue wilts him and jilts him, love makes a fortune dancing in London and stakes him to his theatrical comeback. Though the plot creaks mildly in spots, the cracks of Jack Oakie, the dancing of Alice Faye, and several good songs ("I've Got My Fingers Crossed," "I'm Shooting High") manage to hold it together for the final embrace. But we would not care to dine...
Professor J.P. Baxter, Master's Lodgings: Mon., Wed., Fri., 12.15-1 o'clock...