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Sweepings is worthwhile for Lionel Barrymore's full-length portrait of a tight-lipped tycoon and for a smaller but equally perfect study by Gregory Ratoff of the tycoon's jealous but sympathetic underling. Husband of Eugenie Leontovich, a well-known actress in Moscow before the War who acted in Manhattan choruses until Grand Hotel made her famous, Gregory Ratoff's success in the U. S. came a little later than his wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought...
...typical Delmar character, the cab driver, George Raft, and the pick-up fall in love. He becomes a garage owner, and they live happily in the suburbs until a hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...
...words for us than ever in another soliloquy. But most of the items are by names unfamiliar, and one of them "Low Down" by Charles Angoff, is the most disingenuous attack on the best sellers in the last few years which has ever been published. It all sounds very jealous and stupid, and aggravates by getting at the popular books, by damning the New York Critics...
...London society. Less a play than a gallery of portraits, it has the merit of showing its subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton...
...concert, at which brocaded Mrs. Conway was to have sung, which might have made Elsa some money to help her get away. That falls through when the pianist's romance with Mr. Conway comes out. Then there is a financially disastrous little concert which Elsa arranges herself. In jealous pique, Mrs. Conway has her removed from the faculty. Then neurotic Professor Vardaman (Luther Adler), who has tried Professor Stockton's psychological trick with the pistol, hysterically kills himself when he finds Elsa in Harry Conway's arms...