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Biography of a Bachelor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ann Harding does not suffer in this one. Instead, still copiously exuding sweetness, she is cast as an adventuress so notorious that reporters storm her cabin when she returns to the U. S., so impoverished that bailiffs immediately thereafter denude her studio of furniture, so dashing that Robert Montgomery, editor of a magazine called Every Week, is ready to pay $20,000 for her biography. Ghostwriting her memoirs, he endangers the career of Edward Everett Horton, candidate for the Senate. Horton will lose the election if Every Week reveals the part...
Forsaking All Others (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Dill Todd (Robert Montgomery) leaves his fiancee, Mary Clay (Joan Crawford), waiting at the church while he elopes with his old mistress. The best man, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable), then spanks Mary with a hairbrush. These antics are intended to suggest that all three characters are urbane patricians, filled with charm and worldly wisdom. Lest the point remain in doubt, they speak exclusively in hard-boiled whimsey. When Jeff calls on Mary he kisses her and says: "Perfectly beautiful outside! How inside?" Mary: "Swell, inside." This means that Mary has forgotten Dill...
That Forsaking All Others should be offered as a self-sufficient comedy of manners is a reflection less on Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...
...song called "On the Good Ship Lollipop," it is almost as if Greta Garbo were suddenly to break into "Shuffle Off to Buffalo." Good shot : Shirley's mean playmate, brilliantly impersonated by 8-year-old Jane Withers, showing her the game of trainwreck. The Band Plays On (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Copiously seasoned with false sentiment and meretricious heroism, this dish of college, football & young love presents four young hoodlums turned from careers of crime by a kindly coach. As the "Four Bombers" they are supposed to be the greatest backfield in the U. S. The clowning of Leo Carrillo...
...Painted Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...