Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RKO Boston's current attraction, swan song of a seven-week policy of presenting a second feature instead of a stage show, shows clearly why the project has failed. There has been nothing in the outward appearance of these pictures that could induce a pedestrian to come on in and sit down...
Radio City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...
...anyone will see, who cares to spend two and a half enjoyable hours at RKO Boston, Dolores Del Rio is back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...
Crashing Hollywood (RKO Radio). Oldtimer Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and a group of recidivists from the RKO stock company make melodrama among the studio's sound stages. Old hokum, new style...
Wise Girl (RKO Radio), a befuddled whimsicality, starts off by explaining that all its characters are fictitious, proceeds to prove them superfluous. A very rich girl...