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...affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney) watches him taken to jail. She says good-bye to the young Jew (William Collier Jr.) who lives on the ground floor, packs her belongings in a suitcase, goes off down the street...
...toothy smile. At moments the picture transcends this and other handicaps and really comes to life. Walking with another girl, Roberta Alden passes Clyde Griffiths and says, "Don't look back. Don't look back," and then looks back herself. The first time Roberta goes canoeing with Clyde, Actress Sylvia Sidney, whose performance is brilliant, puts just the right intonations in her tiny, memorable speech: "I can't swim." But most of the time the picture wanders about in a maze of poorly acted, disintegrated incident which lacks the cumulative effect of Dreiser's ponderous prose. Dull shots: Phillips Holmes...
...five-year contract with Samuel Goldwyn who rented her back to RKO-Pathe to translate Rebound into cinema. Hollywood chatterchippies have noted that she is now often seen in company with her leading man in Rebound, Robert Ames. Still married to Actor Gilbert, she seldom sees either him or Sylvia, Hollywood's famed masseuse who in last week's Liberty claimed credit for having whacked the lower portions of Actress Claire into shapes attractive to Actor Gilbert...
...implausible as well as dull. Its dialog, anonymously contributed, is comparable to Mother Goose without rhymes and its campus mise-en-scene suggests the cloisters of a day nursery for retarded adolescents. If anyone can take any interest at all in Confessions of a Coed, it will be because Sylvia Sidney almost manages to make real emotions out of fake situations. One of the many young actresses who have effected a successful transfer from the stage to talkies, she replaced Clara Bow in City Streets when the Daisy de Boe scandal and Cinemactress Bow's indispositions made the substitution necessary...
...clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...