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Power Without Glory (by Michael Clayton Hutton; produced by John C. Wilson & the Messrs. Shubert) is a far better thriller after two acts than after three. Though it comes to a thoroughly bad end, it adds up to a fairly good evening. British Playwright Hutton, who has hit on a rather fresh and valid idea for a thriller, may be a bungler of plots, but he is a master of tension. Best of all, a well-knit British cast keeps on acting deftly even after there's little left...
...come off. A multimillionaire (Cecil Kellaway), plagued by deathbed conscience, leaves a million dollars to a secretary (Joyce Reynolds) who believes that life is just like all the movies she sees. She knows, accordingly, that money is the root of all evil, and will spoil her marriage with Robert Hutton, a bitter young writer. As it turns out, he is thoroughly satisfied; but she can't believe it and hurries off to Reno. Best idea in the picture: the husband becomes a national hero among men, a national monster among women, by demanding alimony...
Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight...
...breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish movie clichés. Johnny Green's score (best songs: Something in the Wind, I'm Happy Go Lucky and Free, The Turntable...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July...