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...Cinemaddict v. Boycott Sirs: ... As a movie fan of more than eight years standing, let me enter my protest against the protesters. When the Catholic league condemns a picture such as Little Man, What Now? because the heroine unhappily conceives her child before she is fully ready for marriage, although the picture is a splendid symbol of faith: and condemns Manhattan Melodrama because a criminal is not pictured as being rotten all the way to the core, then it has become more than censorship. It is stupidity...
...grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once one of Texas Guinan's "little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make any cinemaddict mistake the heroine or any of the other characters in the picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus girl, patterned after the roles Miss Keeler takes in Warner Brothers musicals. A silent gangster (Paul Kelly) with a heart of gold befriends her, falls in love with...
...cinemaddict who has ever heard of Tsar Will Hays should be prepared to guess the outcome of this situation. Megan Davis tries to make a Christian out of General Yen when he is planning to murder a traitorous ex-mistress. He sneers at her attempts, assures her that Christianity is a mumbo-jumbo. To test Megan Davis's sincerity, he offers to accept her as a hostage for the loyalty of his ex-mistress. Miss Davis's Christian faith in the ex-mistress proves to be unjustified. So does her mistrust of General Yen. Having lost his province...
...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...