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...notion that he is the King of England, sets out, when the boy is kidnapped, to rescue him from John Canty's gang of thieves. When the rescue entails fighting off the palace guards, sent to kill the young King before he can return to foil the Hertford,plot, Hendon begins to think his young protege's ideas of his own grandeur may not be delusions after all, hurries him back to London...
...melee of newspaper films which has flooded the motion picture industry comes at last some really excellent entertainment. "Love is News" featuring Loretta Young and Tyronne Power provides amusement galore for a not too critical audience. Although the plot of the film is weak, good acting and sparkling humor soon overcome this drawback. Loretta Young plays the part of an heiress who decides to throw some of the publicity which has been hounding her over to Tyronne Power, a clever and particularly offending reporter. With this as its basis, the picture proceeds to develop to a high level of comedy...
...which turns up in the midst of some supposedly sophisticated love-making: "Your feet are too big." The chief character turns out to be a cheat; he's not a gangster, but merely a charming fellow escaping from a subpoena as witness in a divorce. The climax of the plot is indicated by the fact that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools you any less deceitful. Ann Sothern (the escaping heiress) is nice enough, we suppose, and so is Don Ameche, but the only really worthwhile...
...closing your eyes. A lot of very good Beethoven will wash around you, interspersed with some less masterful music which will but whet your appetite for more Beethoven. From time to time grown-ups and children will chatter in a very unintelligible language which is probably Russian. If plot or foreign photography interests you, open an eye every now and then to get the continuity, for there are a few more complications to this scenario than most European classical productions boast...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...