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...until the final sequences. Helen Twelvetrees shoots an old sweetheart because he has transferred his affections to her daughter. After that the action settles into routine melodrama. Her career began when she eloped with a member of a wealthy family whose infidelities induce her to plunge recklessly into dissipation. Silliest shot: reporters who remain young after a long interval although the heroine has aged considerably...
...Englishwoman who won fame last year in the stage musicomedy, Bitter Sweet. She sings and acts nicely, and though the whole production lacks distinction it is handsomely staged and cast and embellished with the folding leg and funny face of Comedian Leon Errol. Best shot: Errol posting a letter. Silliest shot: Laye and Boles singing lyrics to each other out of doors in the rain...
...have to pass judgment since they had created it. Audiences will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn in her grandchild who falls in love with the drummer's grandchild who has made symphonic arrangements out of his grandfather's songs...
...Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined, and finally finds a way of escaping from troubles quite as turbid as those which, in her famous oldtime serials, she eluded in the last reel by jumping her horse over a canyon. Silliest shot: a description of Reno, enunciated by an off stage voice and synchronized into the shot of the train...
...Virtuous Sin (Paramount). A strange effort toward sophistication in the manner of Sardou, The Virtuous Sin falls between burlesque and melodrama. The plot, one of the silliest of dramatic stencils, concerns a Russian lady who saves her husband from a firing squad by making herself attractive to the General who has ordered his court-martial, only to find that she has fallen in love with the General. The General, acted as well as possible by Walter Huston, is known as "Iron Face." These are the sins of The Virtuous Sin; its single virtue is that it provides the first important...