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Madeleine Carroll, whose chiseled sophistication makes her ideal for such stories as Lloyd's of London, is badly miscast, still manages to lend her ridiculous role dignity. Dick Powell gives another of his exalted-shoe-clerk performances. Alice Faye, in a part which requires only that she act natural, comes off best. What makes On the Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick...
...Miscast as a morbidly jealous wife, Gertrude Lawrence manages to give her role a lynx-eyed dignity which is an excellent foil for the brittle vibrance of Miriam Hop kins...
...Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...
...Wolfe picks up his story, continues his method: he flays real life until the skin is off it and the blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes to Harvard. His father, a Jeremiah miscast, is slowly dying. In Cambridge Eugene studies hard at his playwriting course, makes many a queer acquaintance, one good friend: Starwick, a Midwestern esthete. After going home for his father's funeral, and finishing his Harvard course, Eugene goes to Manhattan, teaches English for a while at a downtown...
...supposedly hard-boiled city editor. The movies have always tried hard to make him a Jack-of-all-Trades and have succeeded, as is inevitable, in making him master of none. Clark may be a good, or relatively so, man about town, but as a city editor he is miscast to say the least. The days of newspaper publishers offices which look like J.P. Morgan's private sanctum are yet to exist, as is the day when a city editor has a trick dictaphone loudspeaker to call...