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...Hamilton MacFadden, who directed and adapted the picture, follows this simple theme, fair program entertainment results. But after Office Girl (Sally Eilers) has married Boss (Ralph Bellamy) the triangle is rearranged as a maudlin contest between Bellamy and Helen Vinson for custody of their violin-playing prodigy daughter (Karol Kay). The picture as cut for its Hollywood preview included a scene which for its power to embarrass the audience took rank with anything recently produced by the cinema-Miss Eilers pressing to her lips various portions of a layette, including baby-shoes. Her baby died soon after birth, filling...
Paramount invariably gives Director Lubitsch expert casts and this time he had Herbert Marshall for the role of a romantic crook, Miriam Hopkins for the crook's accomplice and inamorata, and Kay Francis for the patrician lady they set out to rob. Miss Francis obligingly makes Herbert Marshall her secretary and then falls in love with...
...week insisted, that Warner Brothers starts the cycles that other Hollywood companies finish, it is generally conceded that Warner's strong point lies in selecting stories. One Way Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge...
Katharine ("Kay") Brush, 30, is clearly classifiable as a sophisticate. At 17 she was a newspaper reporter, theatrical reviewer, cinema colyumist. She has married, divorced, remarried. Her novels Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman and her famed short story Night Club won her a reputation for knowing-her-way-about. With pardonable pride College Humor boasted recently that Author Brush, who ''rushes about the world with her eyes open." would write for it a monthly colyum, Manhattan Cocktail...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...