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...macabre. John Gilbert, completing with this film an expensive contract which he signed before talkies demolished his box-office value, is determined to make his last cinema characterizations as ugly as his early ones were sleek. The story is about a steel worker (Gilbert) who humiliates a mistress (Mae Clark) whom he really loves because he thinks she is unworthy to marry his best friend (Robert Armstrong). It might have made a strong picture if they had not been under the wholly erroneous impression that it needed a thick coating of Oh-Yeah comedy-presumably to emphasize the jollity...
...Done Him Wrong is the same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain...
Divorced. Prince Alexis Mdivani, one of three Georgian brothers (others are divorced from Film Actresses Pola Negri and Mae Murray); and Princess Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, Manhattan socialite; at The Hague, Holland. Prince Alexis, son of the late Tsar Nicholas' aide-de-camp, lost his standing as "unofficial ambassador from Georgia" at Paris, by a new non-aggression pact signed last fortnight by France and Soviet Russia...
...glasses, he wonders who she is. He learns that she is a Miss Healy (Constance Cummings) and that the saloon which she patronizes, out of nostalgia, was once her private residence. The elocutionist (Alison Skipworth) whom Anton hires to teach him polite diction gets drunk with a blonde beautician (Mae West), while Joe makes love to Miss Healy. Competing 'leggers try to buy his establishment and one of his old friends (Wynne Gibson) tries to re-open their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know, but Raft and Cummings look their parts...
...Louisville, Ky., having cut off the ear of Raymond Harrington, 25, two months ago because she thought him unfaithful, Eva Mae Powell, 23, set fire to herself, suffering serious burns from knees to shoulders. She explained, "I'm paying back...