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...Daughter (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is distinguishable from most Chinatown pictures by 1) a curiously assorted cast and 2) an unhappy ending. In San Francisco, representatives of a Chinese revolutionist have pledged themselves to send him $100,000. To do this they decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
Rasputin and the Empress (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The most exciting sequence in this picture is the one which shows Prince Chegodieff (John Barrymore) murdering Rasputin (Lionel Barry-more). The murder occurs in the cellar of the Chegodieff palace where the Prince, secreted in the pantry, has been feeding Rasputin poisoned cakes and where Rasputin-under the impression that he is at the home of a friend-has been gobbling them with relish, while pawing at a group of pretty female companions. When Rasputin finds out at whose house he has been holding his lecherous revels, he takes Chegodieff downstairs...
...Loew's Inc.'s annual meeting in Manhattan, stockholders learned that in the last two years $2,670,939 had been paid to a partnership composed of Irving Grant Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer and J. Robert Rubin, dominant officers in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's producing subsidiary, not as a bonus but as their share of the profits under a contract signed when M-G-M was born of a three-cornered merger. Mr. Mayer and his two partners had turned over all their assets-properties, stars, contracts, furniture, cash-taking no stock in exchange...
...Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance of a dumb monster (George Rosener) and a paint shop in the attic where purloined vehicles can be made unrecognizable in three and one-quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish little picture in which Sandy Norton (William Haines) wins a big speedboat race with his coy fiancee (Madge Evans) sitting beside him and a large crowd cheering, in Avalon Bay off Catalina Island, Calif. Sandy is a young inventor and ex-sailor who finances...