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...frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities to each other and who were re united only after the wife had had a lively succession of affairs with...
...Norma Shearer always has been an excellent actress and one particularly easy to watch as she plays on the set. In this her latest offering she gives another finished performance that is easily as good as any that she has given in the past. She does not appear to as good advantage as in "The Last of Mrs. Cheney" perhaps because there she was given a sparkling play with which to work, but she shows that she can inject into a mediocre adaptation from a novel enough life and personality to enable the movie-goer to spend a pleasant afternoon...
Besides the performance of Miss Shearer the other gratifying aspect of the movie is the fact that Robert Montgomery has finally arrived to the point where he has really clever lines to say and not the trite mush that he has had to mutter in the last several movies that he has appeared in. It is true that he gets off one, "Loosen up, little girl" or "Relax. baby, relax" but that can be excused on the grounds that he has been so accustomed to saying those things in the past that he had to utter just...
...part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled by Norma Shearer and the competent Lewis Stone. Its difficulties lie in its adaptation from the original play. The lack of variety in scene and the preponderance of long speeches, compensated on the legitimate stage by the direct contact with audience, avoids monotony by a small margin. On the whole, however, "The Trial...
Loew's State--Norma Shearer in "Their Own Desire...