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With the money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing...
Marion (Ann Harding) is a sophisticated artist, whose affairs had been construed to be slightly Bohemian, and therefore to Dick Kurt (Montgomery) the hardboiled magazine editor, presented themselves as good copy. Leavening this wheat of Mr. Behrman's, Una Merkel and Edward Everett Horton as fiancee and ponderous senator-to-be prove entirely successful. The "senator" also becomes the butt of the editor's vituperation on the political and economic condition of the country--which elicits merited approval of the audience...
...efficient as the unfortunate prince who must give up love for the duties of the throne and the good of his people--a decision which carries little conviction to a 1935 audience which likes to see its princes happy in the arms of their commoner sweethearts. Charles Butterworth and Una Merkel carry the brunt of the comedy burden on their capable shoulders...
...endangers the career of Edward Everett Horton, candidate for the Senate. Horton will lose the election if Every Week reveals the part he played in Miss Harding's early life. Montgomery and Harding go to a mountain cabin to finish the biography; Horton follows them; so does Una Merkel, the latter's fiancée. By this time Montgomery and Harding are in love and the issue between them seems to be whether he is willing to give up his career...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Una Pope-Hennessy Macmillan...