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Lilly Turner (First National), played by Ruth Chatterton, is a small town girl whose first marriage turns out disastrously when she learns that her husband, a loud-mouthed magician, is a bigamist. A bibulous sideshow barker (Frank McHugh) marries her to save her from the disgrace of having an illegitimate child and Lilly Turner spends the rest of the picture gloomily giving him money to buy whiskey. They leave their carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights that he goes...
...Ruth Chatterton's main fault as an actress is that, however deplorable her circumstances may be, she remains a lady. Thus the most spurious moment in this picture is the one which shows Lilly Turner hunched drunkenly on the front seat of the medicine show truck which her lover is driving, guzzling whiskey out of a pint bottle and confessing, with improbably heroic hiccoughs, that she has a Past...
...Elizabeth, Actress Landi says: "I don't care to talk about my ancestry because that is of the past." But her past (which includes English private tutors, a stage debut with an Oxford repertory company, authorship of three published novels) asserts itself in the Landi presence. Like Ruth Chatterton, Elissa Landi is violently patrician at all times and particularly so when she tries to be the creature of her instincts. This is a minor flaw in an otherwise pleasantly superficial parlor comedy, with modernistic interiors...
...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, of influenza in London; Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton, of two broken fingers caught in an automobile door in Los Angeles; Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, of "rundown condition" in Washington, D. C.; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, of stomach trouble in Washington, D. C.; Herbert Nathan Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan drygoods); after a heart attack in Manhattan...
Frisco Jenny (Warner), Ruth Chatterton...