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Madame Butterfly (Paramount). Because Sylvia Sidney has almond-shaped eyes it was inevitable that one day she would be given a kimono and a mop of black hair on top of her head, taught to walk with mincing steps, compelled to use the adjective "velly" in a squeaky treble. She does it all as prettily as could be expected in Madame Butterfly, expensively handled as an individual production by Paramount's onetime production chief, Benjamin Percival Schulberg...
...Mutt, to board at Mrs. Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister of MGM's Production Chief Irving Thalberg) laughable and interesting. Most vulgar shot: Maggie Warren finding out that the bottle from which she has been gulping what she thought was poison, contained something else...
...risen from a poor Midwestern boyhood to a partnership in a big old Manhattan brokerage firm, a house, wife & children in Yonkers, a fat income, fat prospects. On the verge of middle age he still had his health and good looks. But he had fallen in love with Sylvia March Brownlow Wickliffe, pet-named June. A luscious copper-brunette, she fired Sherrill's blood, let him buy her presents, but for a long time would not give him what he wanted. When she became his mistress, he soon found her a hard one. Business troubles, his wife, a sick...
Married. Ralph De Palma, 49, automobile racing driver; and one Marian Leggett, 36; in Las Vegas, Nev. Honeymoon: seeking a job for him on Hoover Dam. Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry...
...hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost the wedding ring, slips his bottle-opener around...