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Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...
...Just a Gigolo and Yours Is My Heart...
...roaring drunk, insisted on taking the neighbors' hats, coats and liquor away with her. The show could stand some severe editing and in certain of the numbers better direction would add a distinction which is lacking. But there is plenty of good music (notably: "Blue Again," "Ex-Gigolo"), most of which is sung by personable Evelyn Hoey (Fifty Million Frenchmen). Flashiest dancer is smiling Jimmy Ray, who fidgets and tapdances gracefully and silently. There is also a dramatized fable called "The Jackdaw of Rheims" in which the jackdaw is a midget toedancer. Lulu McConnell was born in Kansas City...
...uncle with the understanding that he is to marry Roxy Hartley (Irene Purcell), an eligible English girl. Mr. Overman accepts the bargain on one condition: if he can seduce Miss Purcell in one month, he is released from his obligation to his uncle. Whereupon, incognito, he engages himself as gigolo to Miss Purcell. But her bold and modern ways conceal inward purity. On the last day of the month they take an airplane ride over San Sebastian. During the ride Mr. Overman finds himself in love with his employer, refrains from attempting her ruin. What complications ensue during the following...
...pretty girl with pretty common ambitions. Her widowed mother spoils her, teaches her to be "pure," sentimental, defenseless. Joy wants to be an actress, thinks she is one when she joins Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's third-rate repertory company. She is fired when Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's gigolo makes eyes at her; then she goes to London, tries to get another engagement, loses her good name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back to London. gets...