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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, famed English humorist, looked back over his year's connection with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, commented: "They paid me $2,000 a week?$104,000?and I cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them...
...Free Soul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is nothing on the stage or screen more impressive than a Barrymore indicating degenerate addiction to alcohol-a condition which causes the eyes to pop out and the nostrils to grow, though almost imperceptibly, wider. In this picture, it is Lionel's adroitness at such tricks which enables you to believe in incidents, which, however convincingly they be arranged, are basically somewhat ridiculous. He impersonates Stephen Ashe, a brilliant and bibulous lawyer whose daughter is so much influenced by his eccentric conduct that she sees nothing wrong in having an affair with...
Shipmates (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Robert Montgomery made a name for himself in minor-part impersonations of the jeunesse doree. He had an ability possessed by few other young cinemactors to give the impression, without wearing a heavy sweater or a key on his watch-chain, of having gone to college. Nevertheless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided that his first star role should be that of a sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery...
...might tune in and hear "The Globe Trotter" relate his stories in more detail. At newsreel theatres were showing shots of the events thus Globe-Trotted. This ingenious coordination of press, radio and screen was the latest development of Hearst Metrotone News. The reels, distributed twice weekly by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are prepared in Manhattan but can be modified to include events of local interest where they are displayed. The name of the "sponsoring" newspaper is worked into the radio broadcast and into the title of the film, e. g.: "Hearst Metrotone News . . . The New York American . . . WOR . . . The Globe...
...well as mildly entertaining homily. John Boles, whose previous roles have included opportunities for barytone singing, maintains a placid demeanor as Bart Carter. Genevieve Tobin, who has become recognized as the most civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive, which deals glibly with a complicated case of mistaken pregnancy. As cinema, the obstetrical aspects are made to seem even more innocent by the writhing cuteness...