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...rows between Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner as a result of which Zanuck quit Warners, formed a new company called Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. to release films through United Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having an affair with the vice president. The cashier shoots the vice president and himself, leaving Lily Powers to marry the president. Most spurious...
Tattle Tales (Barbara Stanwyck & Frank Fay, producers). Eastern theatre-goers are likely to forget that the West Coast, too, has its legitimate theatre. A sample of it is Tattle Tales which, having toured the Pacific slope and then made its way toward the Appalachians by easy stages, finally arrived on Broadway. Its reception was not encouraging to Frank Fay, oldtime vaudeville master of ceremonies, and his cinematically successful wife, Barbara Stanwyck...
...Barbara Stanwyck's contribution to the show is of the sort which used to delight backwoods cinema audiences. She re-enacts bits from two of her old pictures, Ladies of Leisure and The Miracle Woman. There are two talented dancers, Beuvell & Tova, and one song which most radio listeners have already heard and admired, "I'll Take An Option...
...Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop, hired for the part of the ex-mistress...
...Purchase Price (Warner) is a simple tale of struggle and blind love in North Dakota. George Brent is a bovine farmer who needs a cook and wife. Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan nightclub girl, wants to get-away-from-it-all. She answers his advertisement. The picture hews close to the line of probability. The farmer's life is dirty, uncomfortable, exacting. His house is a bare sty. His manners are bad. Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked...