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Barrymore has been on the point of death in several recent pictures; it is his gruff demise which makes the end of this picture interesting. He is married to a Washington socialite (Karen Morley) who is extravagant and indiscreet. A public utilities lobbyist (C. Henry Gordon; finally forces him to retire from politics to save her reputation. Presently there is an investigation into Barrymore 's political maneuvers. He learns about his wife's in fidelity in time to expose the machinations of the utilities interests, dies of a broken heart. Good sound : applause and mutterings in the gallery...
Since the arrival of talkies, most of Hollywood's new female celebrities have been imported either from the Manhattan stage or from European cinema. Not so Karen Morley. Christened Mabel Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, she went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen...
...About Town (Fox) is shoddy melodrama, with modernistic underacting, about Washington embassies and the U. S. Secret Service. Warner Baxter, a Wartime Secret Service man, has become a gambling big-shot. He meets his best friend's (Conway Tearle's) fiancee (Karen Morley) and at once reforms, returns to the Secret Service. Karen Morley, a woman of action, becomes engaged to Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then...
...career of Alphonse ("Scarface," "Snorkey") Capone. Its vicious hero, one Tony (Paul Muni), ingeniously wins the affection of a public enemy named Lovo (Osgood Perkins) by murdering his own superior. He then embarks upon a career of informal executions, becoming invaluable to Lovo and attractive to Lovo's Poppy (Karen Morley). Presently dissension occurs between Tony and Lovo. Tony wipes out Lovo and leaves for Florida with Poppy...
Naturally the Barrymores dominate the picture, but they are ably assisted by Tully Marshall and Karen Morley, for whom, nevertheless, it is hard to share the Duke's enthusiasm. But leave the brothers alone together, face to face, let them return snarl for snarl, wit for wit, chuckle for chuckle, and any one may see that the two Barrymores are worthy of each other...