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McLaglen's performance is careful and restrained. As Danny O'Neill, the kidnapper of Nancy Steele, he fits perfectly into a role which might easily have been mishandled by a less capable actor. Excellent acting is also contributed by Peter Lorre in a typical snake-in-the-grass part, by Walter Connolly as the father of the kidnapped girl, and by June Lang as Nancy Steele...
Equally critical of movie stars, Miss Marsters termed them as "talkative . . . not handsome and without glamour." No real man would be a movie actor," she expanded. Of the numerous famous characters of the sports world she has interviewed, Max Baer is tops. But even the popular play-boy prize-fighter comes in for his share of Marsters' abuse as being "dizzy" and "punch-drunk...
...emotion at will. In short, Julia was a natural. She was working hard in the repertory company, learning fast, when she fell in love with Michael, a member of the same company. Michael was dazzlingly handsome but not much of a ladies' man, and not a very good actor except in certain limited parts. He was pleased with Julia's adoration, accepted as much of it as his careful nature would allow...
Dark-haired Miss Murphy, the understudy, when questioned about the authors, raved: "Oh, they're the most wonderful guys you ever met. They both graduated from V.M.I. Finklehoffe became a lawyer and Monk an actor; now they're collaborating on another play...
...Pennies From Haven," on the other hand, is about as thoroughly insipid a bit of sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tearstained child named Edith Fellows...