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...Producer Goldwyn's extravagance were misplaced. Nana is sad but spurious and stodgy. All that saves it from complete mediocrity is Anna Sten who, although her accent is still outlandish, is a cheery, wise and personable importation from Russia. Unlike most European cinemactresses, she is interesting without seeming morbid...
...obvious pandering to the prurient prudery of the American movie-going public, the brazen commercialization of a morbid interest in social disease and sex delinquency, found in a long line of "For Adults Only" pictures, from "Is Your Daughter Safe" of years ago, to the current "Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice...
...Road to Ruin," now offered for the delectation of the morbidly curious and the curiously morbid at the Majestic, is probably less dull than most of its predecessors, being saved by the ingenious idea of having a father unaware of his high school daughter's fallen state and a daughter unaware of her conference-attending father's peccadilloes recognize each other on the brink of incest. The quick swoop of the lustful hawk onto his defenceless prey and the horror of the ensuing recognition provide a few tense moments in the long and wearisome record of the ruination...
...student leaves the indubitable tact of claustrophobia's existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that Dr. Campbell's theory was 'very inadequate. . . . Much more satisfactory is ... the current psychoanalytical theory." Psychoanalysis holds, roughly, that morbid fear is the result of a distressing...
...other allied purposes without regard to race or creed." Col. Lindbergh organized non-profit-making High Fields Corp., to hold the estate. Since the kidnapping of their son (TIME, March 14, 1932 et seq.) the Lindberghs have lived at the Morrow home in Englewood. N. J. and, fearing morbid exploitation, have refused all offers for the Hopewell estate...