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Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
...Powell was class cheerleader when he went to Central High in Kansas City. His parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but he borrowed enough money from a rich and eccentric great-aunt to take a course in the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts. When he got a bit-part in a play called The Ne'er Do Well he wrote home such glowing accounts of his success on the stage that he was reluctant to ask for help when the play was taken off. After playing one-night stands in a variety of tank towns he settled...