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...story itself, about two sisters, one an old trouper, the other a school girl on vacation, both of them attached to a handsome young barker, seems as moth-eaten as the lion. Winnie Lightner, hitherto blatant and unfunny comedienne, does well by the part of the elder sister. Charles Butterworth is also connected with the circus in some undefined and probably undefinable capacity. When he shells peas, they bounce out of the pot into which he drops them. In The Bargain (TIME, Sept. 14). Butterworth wore a colonial costume which made him look like George Arliss slightly out of focus...
...ambition is made unnecessary when a picture painted by the father is judged bad enough to be used in an advertising campaign. Doris Kenyon and Lewis Stone perform ably as the middle-aged couple concerned, but whatever prizes accrue to the cinema should rightly be given to Funnyman Charles Butterworth. In the impersonation of a woebegone author, he states the story's theme: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Later he makes soberly improper advances to a maidservant, meanders about at a fancy dress party in a Colonial costume and a wig which makes him look like George...
...other member of the trio is Charles Butterworth who has the misfortune to appear in "Illicit", and that only too rarely. Something should be said about the picture since there's plenty of space in this review and nothing much else to talk about. Miss Stanwyck is modern and Miss Stanwyck, though being old-fashioned enough to fall head over heels in love, as she so graphically describes the emotion, is modern enough to believe that marriage is poison to said emotion. So she goes away on weekends (that's where they get the title, that and a sly hint...
...SMITH A Entry M. S. H. Watts A-31 B B. I. Butterworth B-41 C A. H. Buschmann...
...slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black cat crosses the track: "Ah, the pity...