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...Circle theatre the biggest audience of screen celebrities ever assembled in one hall, but they also erected a grandstand outside to hold the audience of sightseers who went to see the audience of celebrities. Last week, a full-page advertisement in cinema trade papers expressed the thanks of Director Mervyn LeRoy to 133 actors, script clerks, producers, pressagents et al. for "helping me make Anthony Adverse." Thoughtfully included on the list was the name of Author Allen...
...nimble-wits (Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh) who win a beauty contest with a composite photograph of Harlow, Garbo, Dietrich et al. and then palm off a dowdy chambermaid (Marion Davies) as their "original," turns out to be worth considerably less than the purchase price. Under Director Mervyn LeRoy, whose motto seems to have been "When in doubt, shout," Page Miss Glory becomes the noisiest comedy in months, with only Patsy Kelly as a morose chambermaid and Allen Jenkins as a kidnapper managing to give credible performances...
...superiors. The position which should have been his reward for meritorious service has gone to an incompetent sycophant. A highly improbable transoceanic telephone call, from the president of the company in New York to Stephen's superior in Shanghai, sets things right at the last minute but Director Mervyn LeRoy contrives to make this unnecessary bow to precedent as cynical as possible. Good shot: Stephen Chase and the girl he meets in Shanghai eating the dinner he has ordered for his fiancee...
...qualifying round, got put out of the tournament by one Clarry Tiernan who, perturbed by her achievement, ran to hide in the dressing room. Before the final, a disgraceful confusion arose. Pamela Barton, 18-year-old star who was runner-up for the title last year, defeated her sister, Mervyn, in the semifinals, then discharged her caddy who had expected a large tip from her if she won the tournament. Next day, a raucous gallery of County Down caddies cheered loudly every time Miss Barton's opponent hit the ball, groaned mockingly when Miss Barton missed, gleefully watched Wanda...
...piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing...