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...with the most tyrannical of the tyrannical. Only Tom Brown is left to jar a gently amusing and quietly entertaining movie. Tom Brown is as Tom Brown has always been--terribly serious, terribly earnest, gaping, apparently stupified by what goes on, and all in all, completely irritating as an actor. He is as well-adapted to the part of a medical student as Harpo Marx is to the part of Hamlet...
...Firebird (Warner) is a routine Viennese boudoir-&Tpistol mystery which leaves the vague impression that a casual murder may be a fine, broadening influence on a woman. A conceited actor (Ricardo Cortez), who is fond of playing Stravinsky's blood-tingling Firebird, is found shot dead in his bedroom. Was he killed by his onetime wife, whom he had publicly knocked down for dunning him for alimony? Or by his neighbor Her Excellency whom he had invited to his rooms at midnight? Or by His Excellency who may have known of that fact? Or by Their Excellencies' daughter...
Married. Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 19, daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, film, actor; in the home of a friend in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Senator McAdoo, who previously had threatened to cut off his daughter's $1,000-a-month allowance (TIME, Nov. 5), withdrew his objections but did not attend the wedding...
Divorced. Yvonne Printemps, 35, French actress currently performing on Broadway in Noel Coward's Conversation Piece (TIME, Nov. 5); and Sacha Guitry, French actor-playwright; in Paris, on grounds of "reciprocal adultery." Finding both parties guilty, the court granted an impartial decree, canceled Mile Printemps' 6,000-franc monthly allowance. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News gushed editorial approval of this "sensible" ruling, seized a chance to lambaste U. S. divorce laws...
...season is featured this week at Loew's State. Entitled "We Live Again" the movie is an adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel "Resurrection." Casting the newly-found star Anna Sten, of "Naua" fame, in the role of the peasant girl and Frederic March, versatile and capable actor, as the master who first makes for her a disgraceful and wretched existence and then remorsefully and penitently returns to "live again," the director of the picture found two unusual and convincing players to portray the moving story...