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...help, becomes the landlord's man. The poor steal the rich man's cotton, kill his men, burn down his store. The rich man juggles the accounts to keep the poor in debt to him, takes part in lynching a poor man. Each side looks to Barthelmess to betray the other. He snubs a tenant girl's (Dorothy Jordan's) clean love as he succumbs to the unholy temptations of the landlord's daughter (Bette Davis). When the burning of the store destroys the accounts against the poor, the tenants demand of Barthelmess his duplicate set. Strong with social conscience...
...know why he lives at all: mere obstinacy and pride, he says, keep him alive." Middleton Murry shows curious humility in allowing some of the letters Lawrence wrote him to be published. Lawrence to Murry: "You remember saying, T love you, Lorenzo, but I won't promise not to betray you?' W7ell, you can't betray me, and that's all there is to that. Ergo, just leave off loving me. Let's wipe off all that Judas-Jesus slime. Remember, you have betrayed everything and everybody up to now." Critics may dig long before they strike a better summation...
...brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready & waiting. The Hawk's woman is attractive but untractable, finally seems to yield to Wang the Tiger's shrew-taming blandishments. He marries her, loves her like a war lord, and when he finds she is plotting to betray him, kills her on the spot. This incident gives him a dislike for women; his other wives are taken merely as good investments. As Wang the Tiger's star rises, the fortunes of Merchant and Landlord Wang, who supply him with cash, rise too. Like a clever serializer, Authoress...
Cinemagoers have watched Warner Brothers' hurried development of George Brent into a star to compete with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Clark Gable, who last week took a whopping salary cut (35%). Brent and Gable once acted together in Manhattan with Alice Brady in Love, Honor & Betray, were sometimes mis taken for each other. They are both tall, dark, wide-eyed, slow-moving. Both dress well, move their mouths a good deal when they talk, but they look not much alike. Brent, 28, an Irish newsman's son, was born and educated in Dublin. He joined the famed...
...Morals For Old (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One thing that helps this picture is the nonchalance with which the characters in it betray the Hays code. The daughter (Margaret Perry) of a respectable household attaches the affections of a married man. Instead of disowning her, her father (Lewis Stone) tries to be helpful. The girl's brother (Robert Young) goes to Paris to study art, leaving his mother (Laura Hope Crews) to pine and die. There are no penalties herein attached to inconsiderateness and immorality. The girl weds her lover tardily divorced-and bears him twins. Her brother, failing...