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...jail, furious at Mary for being unfaithful, determined to kill her lover. Mary saves Harry's life by pretending to be reconciled with her husband. Then Harry saves Mary in court, when she is accused of having assisted her spouse's jailbreak. All this, cheaply written by Vina Delmar, adds up to another program picture distinguished only for a few sequences in which Raft & Sidney make affectingly plausible the details of a shaky liaison between two urban peewees...
...chapter apiece of a serial story, they solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll) who, to spare the feelings of the man she loves (Gary Grant...
Uptown New York was written by Vina Delmar with dangerous recklessness as to motivation but with a good eye for local color. The hero and heroine meet each other in a ladies' room-which, as the cinema becomes less pastoral, is growing in popularity as a romantic setting-but thereafter the story manages to keep closer to the kitchen than the bathroom. Good sequence: Eddie taking his girl to a wrestling match, proposing to her during a flying mare. Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema...
...Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal Axelson; Joseph Santley, producer). When Vina Delmar's Bad Girl was dramatized last season it contained one brief scene in which a childbirth was indicated by means of a shadowgraph. At the time this sequence was regarded as potent, somewhat daring. Life Begins, whose entire action takes place in and around a maternity ward of a city...
WOMEN LIVE Too LONG-Vina Delmar -Earcourt, Brace ($2).- Rental libraries are rapidly popularizing the kind of novels that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer...