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Also offered is "Women Are Like That," with Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien. The thirty-odd gowns provided for Miss Francis by Orry-Kelly do not compensate for the almost total lack of plot, direction, and acting...
...plot his to do with a charming, unscrupulous adventuress who runs afoul of a pair of detectives, falls in love with one and unintentionally kills the other with knockout drops, trics in vain to go to jail for her numerous misdeeds, and then deserts her inquisitorial lover on the likely grounds that she is not good enough for him. There is a very sage Swiss inspector who sees through the detective's transparent fabrication to cover the adventuress, and advises that they part. He is the only acceptable character in the play. For the others interact with a combination...
Circle still "played" and still had point. The plot, like the title, is Euclidean, demonstrating how two triangles are equal in all respects. The husband, the wife and the lover of Triangle A are the older generation from whom the young people of Triangle B refuse to profit. The facts that Lady Kitty (Grace George) ran off with Lord Porteous and that they turn up 30 years later to serve as Horrible Examples do not deter Lady Kitty's daughter-in-law (Tallulah Bankhead) from running off with Teddy Luton (John Emery...
Escape This Night is passable entertainment considering that its melodrama is as terrifying as Little Lord Fauntleroy, that its plot is as carefully insulated from the audience as a live wire, that the eventual solution is not the least part of the mystery...
...Thurstone gave his 56 tests to 240 students whose I. Q.'s were above average. But when the students had answered the questions, Dr. Thurstone's work had only begun. He proceeded to compare, analyze and plot the scores, to sift out, with exceedingly complex mathematical formulae of his own invention, the separate mental abilities he had measured. He found seven: ability in 1) numbers, 2) words, 3) visual imagery, 4) memory, 5) perception, 6) induction (finding a rule governing a set of facts), 7) verbal reasoning. Dr. Thurstone also isolated two additional factors that he was unable...