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Sworn Enemy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A first-rate screen play by Wells Root and a first-rate performance by Joseph Calleia make this otherwise ordinary Gangster v. Government film agreeably nerve-racking. Calleia is Joe Emerald, neurotic head of a protection racket who, because his own legs are so weak he cannot walk without two canes, has set his heart on becoming proprietor of a heavyweight champion prizefighter. The Root screen play shows how a G-man (Robert Young), who has inherited a promising young plug-ugly from a brother the racketeer has killed, uses this obsession to bait...
...Gorgeous Hussy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Peggy O'Neale, Washington, D. C. innkeeper's daughter, whose second marriage, to President Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War John Eaton, caused an uproar in Washington society unrivaled until the appearance of Mrs. Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton...
Piccadilly Jim (Metro -Goldwyn - Mayer). When Caricaturist Jim Crocker (Robert Montgomery) hears Ann (Madge Evans), a U. S. beauty who enthralled him in a London bar, remark that she is going for a morning canter, he appears on the bridle trail in full-dress clothes, mounted upon a cart horse. Little does he know that the lady loved by his egregious father (Frank Morgan) is Ann's Aunt Eugenia (Billie Burke). When his pursuit of Ann costs him his job, he boils the pot with a comic strip inspired by those members of her family whom...
Subpoenaed last week as he stepped from the yacht of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Producer Irving Thalberg, Playwright Kaufman made no formal comment to the Press, but was reported by friends to have torn his hair and cried "I'm being crucified -crucified!" When he failed to appear as the subpoena directed, a warrant was issued for his arrest...
...Miss Astor considered the "greatest lovers" of the cinema industry, feared that millions of dollars worth of pictures now in production might be in jeopardy in a land which insists that its film stars be sexy but not immoral. Hollywood's most worried man was old Sam Goldwyn, in whose Dodsworth Miss Astor is currently cast as the expatriate seductress. Guarding Miss Astor from newshawks, the Goldwyn pressagents explained: "Mary is a trouper, but you never can tell. She might 'blow up' under pressure if we let people see her and then where would...