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...Carver's Profession (Columbia) is a solemn little problem picture, based on the notion that woman's place is in the home. The banality of this theme is only less startling than the fact that Robert Riskin, who wrote and adapted the story, was clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity...
Married. Mona Fox, 30, daughter of retired Cinemagnate William Fox; and Joseph Riskin, 45, Manhattan diamond merchant; in Miami Beach...
...play is properly farcical, although Playwrights Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin have occasionally blundered into trying to make it something more. Its progress is rendered exceedingly pleasant by Sylvia Sidney, who has long lashes and a figure, as the fraudulent heroine. Dorothy Sands is trig and smart as her young-seeming mother. When asked by a stranger if she knows her own daughter, she replies: "Certainly, we were girls together...
Bohlen--Baker, Kennedy v. Coleridge--Riskin, Smith...