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Pardon Us (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first full-length comedy made by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hopelessly in effectual in all their doings, they are particularly and painfully inefficient in this picture. First shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...
Sporting Blood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has to do with a racehorse named Tommy Boy. Bred on a Kentucky farm, he is sold successively to a pot-bellied stable owner, a spendthrift with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after a misunderstanding with his confreres, his mistress inherits the horse, winters him on the farm where he was bred, enters him in the Kentucky Derby. Gamblers try to fix this race also; but Tommy Boy's owner has a stable boy cut a notch in the reins so that...
...legend has flickered a few times since. In 1928, Myron, no longer a prodigy but still impetuous, hit John Barrymore on the jaw. Of late, David, youngest and least bombastic Selznick, has been heard of most. A year ago, he married Irene Mayer, daughter of Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Near the David 0. Selznicks in Hollywood lives Father Lewis J. Selznick. His grand mannerisms are gone. But his sons and his legend are as lively as ever...
...India (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ramon Novarro, dressed in a turban and sitting on top of an elephant, does not look in the least like Mahatma Gandhi nor any other East Indian. He does, however, look enough like the late Rudolph Valentino to inspire audience reactions of the Valentino kind if not the same degree. In this picture Novarro is an Indian merchant prince in love with a girl from Boston whose brother has once done the Indian a great favor. He has a chance to show his gratitude when the brother underlines the difficulties of inter-racial marriage. Indian pictures...
...hotel telephone operator, she comes by the information which makes possible her revenge. Revenge is seldom sufficient for the plot of a cinema; the girl also loves the son of the man who caused her father's death and will, presumably, marry him. Five and Ten (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) relates the horrid circumstances which may mar the financial success of a 5? & 10? store tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled...