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...second picture, "Ladies About Town," is excellent comedy. Lillian Tashman and Kay Francis are slick, svelte, and most acceptable as a pair of New York gold diggers. They are the best dressed women in Hollywood, and they appear in a vehicle that gives them every chance...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

...Dallas, Tex., Joe Hay, Joe King, Joe Ark and Joe Wah Yee sought an injunction to keep Joe Chung. Joe Kay, Joe Yick and Joe Sin from interfering with the management of their Chinese restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...apartment. While he is resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates him. He sails for Europe, reconciled with his wife (Kay Francis) and determined to stop guzzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Marion Gering's direction moves the story along fast without hurrying it, borrows the advantages of a close temporal unity without making it seem tricky by overemphasis. Clive Brook, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins give well-toned performances. Miriam Hopkins has two torch or porch songs, sings them with the right professional air. Good shot: Clive Brook, preoccupied by his troubles, saying good night to a saloon proprietor. Bad shot: Kay Francis deciding to take what she calls "the thoroughbred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...three were William Powell, Kay Francis and Ruth Chatterton. Most raucous was Paramount's excitement over losing Miss Chatterton. Warner Bros, were several times rumored to be ready to give her back but last week Cinemactress Chatterton was busy with her last Paramount picture (Tomorrow & Tomorrow), planned to begin work for Warner Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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