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...sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog or songs are possible in the script, members of the cast, apparently a cabal to slow up the action at any cost, talk or sing to themselves or to their horses, guns...
...best spot on the bill from the attitude of pure entertainment is the two-reel comedy "Blotto", the quintessence of which is entirely Laurel and Hardy. Under the direction of James Parrot, these slapstickers have raised the art of pie-slinging to a level surpassing everybody but, and equalling Monsieur Chaplin. The gags and plot are worse than mediocre but thanks to two exquisitely mobile faces Laurel and Hardy have their audience rolling about floors and tearing the distinctive features off armchairs...
...Business in some years, but the introduction of the obvious goes a long way toward making it a boring and dissatisfying film. Claudette Colbert deserves a much better part. The only merit of the stage-show is a "brother-sister" dancing team which is excellent. The news reel is slightly below its usual performance...
...manly American racing-car type of picture, and entered the realm of situation comeday, he is of much more value as a source of entertainment. While not nearly approaching the cleverness of his latest picture, "Lovin' the Ladies", the "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is sufficiently worthwhile. Counting the news-reel, the University's present bill is the best-balanced in several months...
...mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm is the only thing that gets it over, but it is obvious at times that she is uneasy too, especially at the moment when she has to drop her habitual air of dignified seductiveness to dance a tap routine in tights...