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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is better than most program pictures because it does not fit completely into any standard classifications. It is not a melodrama or a farce, but something between. Marie Dressier as proprietress of a boarding house on the wharfs, Wallace Beery as her star boarder and sweetheart, have some good lines. Sometimes they act competently and sometimes they burlesque with unconscious ludicrousness; particularly Miss Dressier who, made a star because of the extravagant praise given her for her work in bit-parts (TIME, July 28), has now kept on making bit-parts out of roles in which...
...Dancers (Fox). When Phillips Holmes finds his boyhood sweetheart (Lois Moran) teaching school in a small French town, she confesses to him that she has not lived up to the inscription she once wrote on her photograph: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick...
...power of the original play which was largely a collection of swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat commander who is touchy on the subject of his wife's fidelity; the roguish, lovable saloonkeeper; able Guy Kibbee (late mortuary supply salesman of Torch Song...
...Danville,Ill., Genevieve Bradford, 16. killed herself with a revolver because her mother had told her she would have to give up her sweetheart if she did not give up cigarets...
...over-articulate effort that is made tolerable only by the skill of an excellent cast. Its climax consists in Conrad Nagel's discovery that since his wife did not go through with the divorce she promised for a certain date, he has become a bigamist in marrying his sweetheart, Genevieve Tobin. Best shot-Miss Tobin explaining how she was knocked down by the taxi...