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FAUST. The Jewel and Spinning Songs (Victor, $2)-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sings these with frigid perfection...
...eyes of true Catholics it was a minor detail that the persons unknown who perpetrated the Supreme Sacrilege were also thieves and stole from the Church of S. Marco Maggiore religious vessels, consisting of a jewel-studded chalice, monstrances and Pyxes valued at thousands of dollars, but all essentially things of little worth in spiritual comparison with the Host...
Slightly Scarlet (Paramount). More than slightly foolish, this decorative melodrama of jewel thieves at work and play on the Riviera belongs to a comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something...
...Chicago, thieves entered the home of J. G. Haber, sausage manufacturer. They found Mr. Haber snoozing by the radio, Mrs. Flossy Haber singing in the bathtub. Opening the bathroom door, they tossed Mrs. Haber a wrap, made her get them her jewel box, contents valued...
...other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...