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...Little Colonel (Fox). Annie Fellows Johnston's* story about the curly-headed tomboy who reconciles two warring factions of a Southern family has been thumbed religiously by nice little girls since 1895. "The Little Colonel" was full grown and on the road to matrimony before Mrs. Johnston was through with her. Shirley Temple is not quite six but, dressed up in flounces and high-button boots for this picture, she steps into a rôle cut down to her size with all the assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made...
Spitfire (RKO), completed before Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for her Manhattan stage appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls...
...then died. Composer Jerome Kern has supplied half .a dozen excellent tunes. Appearing as a customer of Aunt Minnie, Lyda Roberti has got her usual comedy out of wriggling her stomach to show that she is a dangerous woman and waving her arms to show that she is a tomboy. Finally novelty appears...
...Husband" is chiefly remembered for the Hepburn. Miss Hepburn is the rrrrrr rise of a new stage type, Katherine 'Hepburn. Miss Hepburn is the most obvious Amazon, except for Amelia Earhart, in the public eye, and in her Hollywood ventures she has been cast as a ratchet-voiced tomboy whenever possible. It is an extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint...
...Vickers was a tomboy, a bossy little girl who, like many another, never quite got over her youth. In spite of temptations she refused to fritter away her seriousness in the usual boy-&-girl business in her small-town set. She went to a small Eastern college, splashed seriously, busily, happily as its Biggest Frog. There she was tempted from her narrow way by a liberal-minded professor, who tried to seduce her but succeeded only in destroying her orthodox faith. After graduation Ann rolled up her sleeves, got into the woman-suffrage fight. From that point...