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...portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these gentle snobbish strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar tycoon's party next door, does not know that she is married. Wandering...
Should Ladies Behave (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the fiancé (William Janney) of cunning little Leone Merrick (Mary Carlisle) tells her that she lacks sophistication, the consequences of his naïveté are fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her Aunt Winkie (Katharine Alexander). When Aunt Winkie, Leone, Geoffrey and Max arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom...
...done it already." This rude allusion to Comedian Brown's appearance should please his admirers. So should his efforts to impress a girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure on the wing of an airplane...
...Right to Romance (RKO). The problem child of RKO, Ann Harding, appears always in pictures which take the pulse of such throbbing questions as the double standard, woman's place in the home or how much a girl should tell her fiancé. This time she is a celebrated facial surgeon, successful in her profession but harassed by longings for Romance. She marries a playboy (Robert Young) whose chief interests are listening to football games on the radio and looping-the-loop, only to discover her mistake in time to patch up after an airplane crash the face...
...Sailor Prince George had worked his way up to the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus. Reluctantly he left her to take up his duties as eventual heir to the throne, which included his marriage to the present Queen Mary (of Teck), his dead brother's fianc...