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...home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic. Typical shot : Oakie composing a song to sing to his society sweetheart and then finding that she has only been encouraging him to get a laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Fred Doboriewitz, 24, dry cleaner, left his open ammonia cleaning tank to telephone his sweetheart for forgiveness of a quarrel. She was unrelentant. He shuffled broken-hearted back to his ammonia tank to weep against its edge. The fumes asphyxiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...good cast, but Miss Davies, probably the most skillful comedienne in pictures, lovely in her trailing gowns, is better than the rest of them all the time. Typical shots: the bathing party, the bicycle picnic, the harmony singing, the love-scenes in swings, the hero following his sweetheart on stage when she comes out for the "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog or songs are possible in the script, members of the cast, apparently a cabal to slow up the action at any cost, talk or sing to themselves or to their horses, guns, donkeys, reflections in mirrors. Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...Chicago, Earl Holmes prepared to marry Anne Larsen, sweetheart of Frank Fabarula, gangster. Fabarula, with two cronies, one a twice imprisoned policeman, kidnaped Holmes, tried to hang him to a tree. Three law-abiding policemen stopped them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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