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...Flame Within (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For attention from the current cinema, Department of Justice agents' only rivals on the distaff side are female psychiatrists. Like Dr. Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall...
Written, directed and produced by Edmund Goulding, The Flame Within displays advantageously that extraordinary confusion of sex with altruism which, for her admirers, constitutes Ann Harding's chief charm. In other respects it demonstrates the contention that subjects such as mental therapy are best treated in more adult fashion or else left alone...
Retired from active service since January, little General Maxime Weygand, favorite of Marshal Foch and onetime Inspector General of the French Army, emerged from obscurity last week to take part in the ceremony of relighting the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small...
...Mansion on the Hudson, Miss Skinner is first a bustled lady of 1880, the mistress of "Tall Trees," rejecting an old flame's advances even though her worthless husband is busy dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles...
...sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...