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...Marriage Circle. For his sec- ond production here* Ernst Lubitsch, German director, has produced a suave, beautifully finished comedy around the warning: "Don't trust your husband or wife to your best friend!" A Viennese doctor and his wife try it. It's only because the locale is insouciant Vienna that shooting doesn't occur. The physician, rather unwillingly, becomes involved with a lecherous married woman, largely because his wife is jealous of the wrong girl. When the wife discovers how easy it is for a best friend to fall in love with her, peace is restored...
Somehow there always seems to be a plot. In this instance, it is concerned with the progress of an orphan girl to the ultimate in feminine success?for-tune and a husband. The presence of a few execrable jokes may be condoned owing to the profusion of legitimate risibility. A prospective song hit, Going Rowing, completes the entirely satisfactory exhibit...
...mute inglorious Milton?except when selling Gold Strap Food Products. He wins a village girl, a trifle shrilly pitched but cleverer than himself. Unable to fuse his mental ivory and cardiac gold, she elopes with a traveling trombonist. Twenty years' leave of absence from humanity in Alaska bring husband back to the scene still a financial and cerebral failure. Wrenching the play quite out of shape, Miss Gale screws on a happy ending...
...LADY?Melodramatic reunion of the virtuous chorus girl, the worthless husband, the luckless infant, the irate grandfather?well played and still luxuriously emotional...
Died. The Earl of Warwick, 71, husband of the "Red Countess" and companion of the late President Roosevelt in big game hunting; at Beer, Devonshire...