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...Whitcomb Riley boys in a swimming hole. Then, "in no time at all he was president of the road," bullying the directors of Chicago & South Western Railway into buying a little road for spite. Then a flashback to his first trackwalking days, his courtship of prim, big-eyed Sally (Colleen Moore). Then a flash forward to his troubles with his spoiled collegian son at whose angry look he says, "Don't look at me that way, boy. You're giving away too much weight" Then a flashback to his self-education when ambitious Sally walked track...
Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last...
...Gossoon, by George Shiels (new). A young rascal flies about the country on a motorcycle, drinks, bets on the dogs, chases after every petticoat he sees, is finally reformed by a shrewd colleen with more cunning than her elders...
Divorced. By Colleen Moore, cinemactress: John McCormick, cinema producer, her onetime business-manager. Charge: that he had ugly moods...
Footlights and Fools (First National). In wigs and short silk dancing clothes, against elaborate colored settings Colleen Moore plays a French actress in love with a race-track tout. The wandering story is handled in the superficial awkward way common to films in which the plot is merely a series of hooks for hanging up songs and dances. It is unfortunate under the circumstances that Colleen Moore has little singing voice and cannot dance. A typical Irish-American girl, spontaneous and convincing in parts that are natural to her, she is clearly uncomfortable in Footlights and Fools. Silliest shot: Miss...