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...fortunate that none of the passengers in Channel Crossing (see above) encounters the hero of this picture on his way to the boat. Mr. Latimer (Clive Brook) owns a house on the Dover Road where it is his whimsy to detain persons bound for France for the purpose of meddling in their business. Unlike the morose financier in Channel Crossing, who would doubtless have murdered Mr. Latimer on sight, the people whom Mr. Latimer entertains in Where Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well...
...Sinners Meet is a genuinely amusing farce is due less to the smug whimsicalities of A. A. Milne's The Dover Road, from which it derives, than to the charm and delicacy with which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been...
...Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back on the table. It was the end. . . . Leucemia. Bound Brook, N. J.-Mrs. Santo Pinto, 48, mother of eleven children, died late yesterday of leucemia, after an illness of 16 months. Orange, N. J.-Mrs. Hazel Sinonair, 30, died today of leucemia. She had been ill for 20 months and in the hospital for four weeks. She was the third Orange...
Although Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook are teamed together for the first time since "Cavalcade" in Radio Pictures' new gem, "Where Sinners Meet," it might have been as well if they had let this one go and taken the next vehicle that came along. A. A. Milne has been termed a great man, but even great men cannot count upon the vagaries of the cinema world, and the havoc which Hollywood has wreaked upon "The Dover Road," an enjoyable play, is so remarkable that even the genius that was once Diana Wynyard cannot pull...
Turning to the acting, we find that there are still a few of the great hams left, of whom one of the primest is Reginald Owen. His interpretation of an Englishman is indeed unique and extremely boring, even as Americans view him. Miss Wynyard and Mr. Brook don't seem to work too well together, and Mr. J. Walter Ruben, who has never produced anything very startling, certainly didn't help them along to any great extent...