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Private Lives (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "Certain women should be struck regularly-like gongs." In itself, this is not particularly witty. It is neither an epigram nor a wisecrack and anyone who made it at a dinner table would be lucky if it caused a smile. On the other hand, it is light-hearted and emphatic. Spoken by a cultivated young man to a lady with whom he is both in love and angry, it becomes funny. It illustrates the formula for Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which the author made his job easy by arranging his situations...
...Cheat (Paramount). Pictures like this seem to explain the financial discomforts to which every cinema concern except Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is now subject. After fetching talented, exciting, polished Tallulah Bankhead home from the London stage with the intention of making her a picture star, Paramount has introduced her to U. S. cinemaddicts with three of the dustiest vehicles of the year. Tarnished Lady was claptrap about a girl who married for money and later regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan...
Flying High (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Bert Lahr performing the role he made famous when the show was a Manhattan musicomedy. He is a bedazzled aviator who spends a night in a bathtub, then breaks the altitude record because he lacks sense enough to come down. Two of Flying High's best songs ("Thank Your Father," "Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted") have been whistled so much that they had to be left out, but in other respects the cinema improves the play...
Possessed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Clark Gable has now been leading man to each of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's three leading stars. In A Free Soul he delivered a punch to the chin of Cinemactress Shearer; in Susan Lenox he managed to control an impulse to do likewise to Greta Garbo. In this picture, his second with...