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...Westman Law. Three days before last Christmas, Sweden's new conservative Cabinet set up a committee for the pur pose of "devising appropriate measures to prevent misuse of press freedom." Minister of Justice Karl Gustaf Westman (already feared in Sweden because of his Nazi leanings) dug up an obsolete press law providing for criminal action against editors who publish "offensive writings" about a foreign State...
...Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker, staunch old trooper, turns in an adequate performance and John Call, Joseph Sweeney, Bartlett Robinson (who looks startlingly like a Bennington drama boy), and Nydia Westman are all excellent in minor roles...
...fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
...announcing to him the tidings of her divorce. David Manners and Adrienne Ames come as a harried young couple attempting to recoup purloined funds, closely tracked by Detective Jackson who is persuaded to content himself with shooting Crook Churchill. Jockey Eagles rides the good race for Shirley Grey. Nydia Westman and Donald Kerr are teamed as a talkative hotel clerk and telephone operator. The brighter moments are furnished by Jack Oakie as a radio announcer with an overpowering weakness for crooning at crucial moments, and Clarence Muse as a Negro bellhop...
...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...