Word: cinemaddicts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite diction gets drunk with a blonde beautician (Mae West), while Joe makes love to Miss Healy. Competing 'leggers try to buy his establishment and one of his old friends (Wynne Gibson) tries to re-open their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know, but Raft and Cummings look their parts and the picture was well directed by Archie Mayo. It manages to convey a sense of a locale, to dramatize successfully the popular conception of speakeasies as venal institutions which are sleek, disorderly and exciting...
Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an old-fashioned cinema, gentle, lachrymose and romantic, calculated to make the throat of any susceptible cinemaddict like that of a giraffe swallowing oranges. The first lump occurs when John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is found moping, at the turn of the century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist...
...King (Universal). The last things any cinemaddict might expect to find in a mythical kingdom like Alvonia are Tony, Tom Mix's piebald cowpony, and Tom Mix himself, in a cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride...
...wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with and he put in a few sharp touches of his own. The gross face of an anonymous cinemaddict who is almost strangled by his amusement at the preview of Merton's picture, underscores the gesture of shame with which Merton rolls up his cowboy hat, hides it under his coat...
Wayward (Paramount). The casual cinemaddict will be vaguely bothered by trying to remember whether he has either read the story or seen the picture before. Actually he has done both. There has been previous elaboration, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, on the theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy...