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...PENNINGTON-Francis Brett Young-Harper ($2.50). Though Author Young might be horrified at the comparison, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington may remind you of Authoress Vina Delmar's best-selling Bad Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just...
...dialogue is even as skillful as the direction. Pungent with quips and wise-cracks, it snaps from player to player, yet is ever pointed and revealing. This reviewer, not having read the story from which the picture is taken, cannot form a comparison between them, but if Vina Delmar's novel is equal to the film, the dialogue is mighty good entertainment...
...story humbly. A radio salesman, responding less to his own inclination than to her advances, makes friends with a pretty girl, seduces her with pleasure tinged by pessimism, marries her with love but some reluctance when her brother turns her out for coming home late. The picture, derived from Vina Delmar's best seller in 1928, might have been chilled by the sententious attitude with which cinema often apologizes for its attempts at realism. Instead, it is as intimate as the gossip on a fire-escape, as interesting as a secret. Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) gave the story...
...plays golf with Walter Hagen clubs, shows a marked dancing preference for U. S. young women, plays U. S. jazz on his saxophone, and as Empire Salesman "threw" for South American bigwig prospects at least one major salesman's drinking party of approved, standardized U. S. pattern, at Vina del Mar, Chile (TIME, March...
...Dancing the tango at Vina del Mar's Casino, H. R. H. belied advance press notices from London that he can tango. According to Chilean experts, what H. R. H. did was something between a tango and a waltz. "This made his steps," wrote one courteous Chilean, "quite the most unusual and newest on the floor." ¶ Entertaining a delegation of more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina...