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King of Gamblers (Paramount). A newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) and a nightclub singer (Claire Trevor) unraveling some fascinating underworld homicides perpetrated by Akim Tamiroff...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...
...years hence, a group of archaeologists searching for traces of the lost civilization of America should unearth a few reels of "Career Woman," they would undoubtedly come to the conclusion that twentieth century standards of entertainment in this country were at an all-time low. This film, starring Claire Trevor, is a rambling account of a girl who wants to be a lawyer. The piece goes on and on, finally stopping of its own accord when it becomes tired...
...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
Last week, to commemorate the anniversary of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadri lateral, there gathered in suburban Evanston, at the invitation of the Episcopal Church, some 150 bishops and archbishops of the Anglican communion in the Western Hemisphere, including two primates-Toronto's Archbishop Derwyn Trevor Owen, and Archbishop Edward Hutson of the West Indies...