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...years Sam Goldwyn his had fantastic stories of his illiteracy publicized because that publicity was good. For just as many years Hollywood as a whole has put its tongue in its rouged check and told the world how mad and delirious it was. And in the Spewacks' play, "Boy Meets Girl," it had a ready-made chance to do it again...
...Handle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a brisk occupational comedy-melodrama investigating the hazards, practical and emotional, of the newsreel industry. As a guide to young men seeking a career that will combine adventure and desirable social contacts with high financial rewards, Too Hot to Handle can be dismissed as foolishly overenthusiastic. As entertainment-lavishly produced by Laurence Weingarten, compactly written by Laurence Stallings and John Lee Mahin, directed at breakneck speed by Jack Conway-it can be heartily recommended...
Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Lately grown acutely conscious of the problems of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney...
Three Loves Has Nancy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). As a Southern chit whose sweetheart has failed to turn up on their wedding day, Janet Gaynor invades New York to bowl over those pillars of penthouse society, Franchot Tone and Robert Montgomery, with naive charm best exemplified when she says grace in a night club...
Rich Man, Poor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays patiently with the notion that the really oppressed people in the U. S. are the Great Middle Class-of which, says Lew Ayres, crossing his heart, there are 90,000,000 members. This social philosophy is complicated by the most thoroughly tiresome Cinderella romance of the summer season...