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...sexual glamour for which she is celebrated by beating a rattlesnake to death with a horsewhip, flaying a half-breed Indian, marrying a libertine (Monroe Owsley) and knocking him unconscious, blacking the eye of her husband's mistress (Thelma Todd), practicing prostitution, boxing the ears of her second fiancé (Anthony Jewitt) and punching a horse in the stomach. The only explanation for her behavior lies in the fact that she is not, as she supposes, the daughter of a Texas railroad millionaire (Willard Robertson) but the bastard offspring of his wife (Estelle Taylor) and a yodeling Indian chief...
...Saturday (Paramount). With Will H. Hays to guide it, the cinema is rapidly evolving a perplexing new morality all its own. This picture, for instance, makes Randolph Scott appear to be a boor and prig because he is disgruntled when his fiancée (Nancy Carroll) tells him she has spent the night with another man (Cary Grant...
...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 to go on waiting...
...over the world. When he returned it was with considerable literary kudos and a mistress. He settled into his family's comfortable life with amazing ease, took up golf, curried favor with the Press, jacked up his prices, tried to kiss the maid, seduced his brother's fiancée, married a widow. Having raised merry Ned in general, he was rescued by his girl just in time for Art, whisked off to Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Rice withdrew his piece after four performances...
Further to persuade Mrs. Windrew to accept Philip as a son-in-law Mary Hilliard tells her that her daughter's present fiancé has been spending nights in Atlantic City with a Vanities girl. Unfortunately this turns out to be true, not only of the fiance but also of Mrs. Windrew's young son. By this time everybody is on the point of hysterics, including Mary Hilliard, who has suddenly decided she wants Philip for herself...