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...Avenue" is a good show suffering from a slight attack of miscasting. It contains an unspeakably rich heroine who alternates between haughtiness and condescension, and that part is thrust upon Madelcine Carrol. Miss Carrol is an excellent actress, and having made the transition from English society to Hollywood, she is able to adapt herself to almost anything. Still, there is always the shade of an indication that she is stooping and knows it. She has suffered worse at the hands of other heroes than Dick Powell, and she suffers to perfection. But previously her sufferings have been noble; the petty...
Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll are the couple who gratify the terror-hungry spectators with the highly embarrassing jams they get into. It's all the outcome of Madeleine's getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife...
...Lecturer on Avestan in the first half year Harvard will have Herbert P. Houghton, since 1923 professor of Greek and Sanskrit at Carleton College. Before going to Carleton, Dr. Houghton was President of Waynesburg College 1915-18; and President of Carrol College, Wisconsin, 1918-20. At the age of forty, he was ordained as a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1923-29 was rector of All Saints Church, Northfield, Minn...
Colonial--"Alice in Wonderland." Eva LeGallienne as actress-director, and Josephine Hutchinson as Alice head a good cast in a perfectly delightful production of Lewis Carrol's classic...
...Judy Carrol takes up travel, makes friends with Playwright Jake Pell (Joel McCrea) who is estranged from his wife. A jolly suitor, he writes a play for her, escorts her into dubious cafes, fills her bedroom with balloons. It looks as though Judy Carrol were going to get her baby at last until, on the opening of the play, there comes a bulletin from his first wife. She has provided Playwright Pell not with a divorce but with an infant. Brave through it all, Judy Carrol sends her fiancé back to his first wife and prepares...