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Hotel Haywire (Paramount): a rollicking mêlée precipitated when Spring Byington finds a pair of women's silk panties in Lynne Overman's pocket-prolonged by Astrologer Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carrillo) supplying both with detectives recruited from vaudevillle...
...latter is played rather poorly by Dudley Digges, who is the enemy of the whole county because his fences hinder the hounds. Spring Byington as Barrymore's wife and Charley Grapewin as a crony give their usual performances. The whole picture drags considerably, but is more than endurable...
...same as always. The kids drive the father half nuts because he is too strict with them. A couple of them get hurt, however, and in the throes of worry he repents and becomes the model pater familias. It is all entirely commonplace except for June Lang and Spring Byington...
Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, and Eric Linden are lifted intact out of "Ah Wilderness" to present once again the picture of man, wife, and son in "The Voice of Bugle Ann." But this time the emphasis is on the father, who commits murder for the love of the lady in the title role. Bugle Ann, the unwitting cause of the strife, is a lovely female hound, whom Lionel won't let anyone call a bitch. It is all very exciting in an unpretentious way, and a remarkably entertaining movie for the second on the bill...
...audience in an atmosphere of homey sweetness which should make the picture a success at any neighborhood playhouse. Mr. Evers (Jed Prouty) is the father of a "typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack at 17 is absorbed in his first...