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...Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna, who in Hungary was called "Steffi, the Wonder Child." Pert Miss Duna, whose elfin face looks not unlike Sylvia Sidney's, played in Noel Coward's Words & Music in London earlier this season, is now making...
Pick Up (Paramount). Mary Richards (Sylvia Sidney) gets through with an unfair jail sentence, makes friends with a taxi-driver named Harry (George Raft), starts living with him. He takes up with a Society Girl. Mary's husband breaks out of jail, furious at Mary for being unfaithful, determined to kill her lover. Mary saves Harry's life by pretending to be reconciled with her husband. Then Harry saves Mary in court, when she is accused of having assisted her spouse's jailbreak. All this, cheaply written by Vina Delmar, adds up to another program picture distinguished...
...Sylvia Sidney is first seen preparing to leave jail, ready to forget her dishonest husband who implicated her in the old badger game. She is free, with five dollars in her pocketbook. Three dollars and sixty-five cents for train fare and a few days in the big city. Broke, A rainy night. Into a taxicab for shelter. The driver takes her to his room. But he does not trust pick-ups. Takes his money out of the bureau ready to go to a friend's room for the night. Takes another look at her. Thinks she is pretty nice...
...typical Delmar character, the cab driver, George Raft, and the pick-up fall in love. He becomes a garage owner, and they live happily in the suburbs until a hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...
UNFINISHED SYMPHONY -Sylvia Thompson-Little, Brown ($2.50). To be reviewed...