Word: treacherousness
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Thank You Jeeves (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the first appearance in cinema of the most famed fictional character created by Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. Herein, Jeeves (Arthur Treacher), fabulously efficient gentleman's gentleman to addle-headed Bertie Wooster (David Niven), teaches a Negro swing musician to play the March of the Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist...
Hearts Divided (Warner) turns out to be a particularly inept little costume piece in which Marion Davies proves unable to furnish first-rate entertainment even when directed by Frank Borzage and surrounded by such players as Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...
Bing Crosby stows away on a liner out of sympathy for Ida Lupino, a girl he meets in a night club, who has been kidnapped by gangsters hired by Arthur Treacher to take her back to England where she is supposed to marry someone. G-men arrest a bishop because they have heard that Charles Ruggles, Public Enemy No. 13, who is dissatisfied with his number and waiting for "the new ranking to come out," is traveling aboard the same ship as a cleric. Ruggles makes himself useful stealing clothes for Stowaway Crosby but rouses suspicion when he uses...
...tranquil victim and ideal, gives us every nuage of her changing feeling toward him, and despond and exults to perfection. The others of the cast are fully as good as their names propels: Charles Butter worth, Betty Furness, Ralph Morga, Sara Haden, Albert Emery, Henry Armelia, and Arthur Treacher. The tenth "march of Time" vital, but not so timely, rounds out the progress...
...entrance cue. The other occurs when he discovers his true feelings for his wife just after he has written her a letter telling of his love for the fickle heiress and is forced to chase half way across the country in an effort to intercept it. To tall Arthur Treacher, playing the part of a saturnine and formidable English valet, falls Bright Lights' one bright line. "I posted the letter in the box on the corner," says he, "the one of a sickly green color...