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...this is quite as spurious as it sounds but, hobbling atmospherically along with that artfully erratic pace which Director William Dieterle uses to give his adventure stories glamour, it makes acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Victor Jory -an able, sharp-faced young actor who has become a featured player after his first five pictures-gloomily apologizing to Loretta Young for kissing...
...know who it was and who hired him to do it. . . . But it's all right. Besides being great publicity for me, it's good for Al, who needs it. . . . Al won't find anything to worry about in the picture. It makes the actor out a great guy. He's a chump if he doesn't play the lead in the piece. . . . I'll shake hands with Al after I've had some more publicity-and not until then...
...from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night last week, waiting in the stage-like dark for Wiley Post to come back from around the world...
...John Barrymore, after much face-making in the most approved Hollywood manner, has at last remembered that he is an excellent actor. His subtle and penetrating characterization in "Topaze" is now followed by another fine performance in "Reunion in Vienna," the piece de resistance at the University this week. Miss Wynyard turns in a capable and convincing performance as Eleana, as does Frank Morgan as her husband. May Robson is up to her usual high standard and the supporting cast is excellent...
Seeking Divorce. Winifred Coe Dix, 25, San Francisco socialite; from Richard Dix, 29, cinemactor; in Hollywood. Actor Dix's explanation: "We don't speak the same language...