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Merrily We Go to Hell (Paramount). This is about a colyumist (Fredric March) who differs from the other two because he has a home and is not much concerned with murdered racketeers. He marries the daughter (Sylvia Sidney) of a packing millionaire, after meeting her behind a row of bottles at a penthouse. He grieves her by getting drunk inopportunely. He is drunk when they meet, drunk at her announcement party, slightly addled for their wedding, in a partial stupor on the night that his play, a "satiric comedy" in Restoration costume, has its premiere. "Merrily we go to hell...
...anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding...
Ladies of the Big House (Paramount). Almost every program picture contains at least one new idea. In this one the idea is a jail break by women, executed in rough & ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with...
...highly charged with spurious excitement. Best shot: Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond allowed to see each other for a moment in the jail, so that a news-photographer can snap their hysterical embrace...
Adams' Wife- They needed threshers on Jim Adams' Kansas farm when a city fellow named Peter Barrett (Eric Dressier) drifted in from the East. Jim Adams (Victor Kilian) liked the boy. took him into his family. Jim's wife Jennie (Sylvia Field) had already lost one baby, was expecting another. The first iS years of her life seemed a fair sample of what drudgery the rest of it was to be. She took a liking to Peter, too. So did a Negro named Joe. But Peter and his college book-learning and Jim Adams' dogged sense...