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...love with a girl, the rich young man decent and the poor young man (Owsley) dishonest and weak. The only difference between Honor Among Lovers and Ten Cents a Dance is that the latter is set against a dancehall background instead of the beau monde and that handsome Barbara Stanwyck is in it. Spectators know as soon as they see Owsley that Ricardo Cortez is going to get Miss Stanwyck in the end. But such spectators will not go home: Barbara Stanwyck will hold them. She makes the dialog - so jerky and stilted on the lips of the rest...
...sound device, less rhythmically, she exclaims: "I wish I could tie up that trumpeter and make a saxophone player play in his ears until he dies." Most expected shot: Owsley accusing Miss Stanwyck of infidelity after she has left the dance hall because he was jealous of the many men who danced with...
...Barbara Stanwyck is a 23-year-old Brooklyn girl who tried stenography and a telephone switchboard before she landed a chorus job on the Strand Roof. In a show called Keep Kool she did an imitation of the late Louis Wolheim in The Hairy Ape. She moved through the Follies and a few other musical shows before her first straight role in The Noose. In Burlesque she made theatrical history. Another of her current pictures, Illicit, is one of the year's best...
ILLICIT?Valid drama of modern marriage, finely acted by James Rennie and Barbara Stanwyck...
...other member of the trio is Charles Butterworth who has the misfortune to appear in "Illicit", and that only too rarely. Something should be said about the picture since there's plenty of space in this review and nothing much else to talk about. Miss Stanwyck is modern and Miss Stanwyck, though being old-fashioned enough to fall head over heels in love, as she so graphically describes the emotion, is modern enough to believe that marriage is poison to said emotion. So she goes away on weekends (that's where they get the title, that and a sly hint...