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...Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou left Hollywood for France, his somewhat abrupt disappearance from the top flight of film stars was attributed to his inability to make sound pictures. But others said that he had left because his ideas about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice...
...Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall to give...
...Love Parade (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou, dismayed by the prospect of playing in talking films, left Hollywood and went to live in Paris, this picture, which had been written for him, was made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged...
Actor Milton Sills is the describer of leading cinemactors and cinemactresses. He calls Pola Negri "frank, tempestuous"; Janet Gaynor "radiant"; Ernest Torrence "rugged"; John Gilbert "young, reckless." He says that Adolphe Menjou has "fascinating wickedness," that Emil Jannings is the "master craftsman." He admits that the screen still awaits "its Duse and its Booth...
...remains a very good farce. It is concerned with the marital infidelities of an elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband of the blonde he has taken to the mountains. Adolphe Menjou, who talks throughout the picture with a French accent, although in private life his inflection is thoroughly native, makes a suave, satiric portrait out of the role. Best shot: Menjou. exhausted by exercise and mountain air, thumping with his cane on the bedroom door of his inamorata and uttering protests...