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Newspaper men, their lives and loves, have already been recorded a number of times on the screen. The latest version, "Love Is News" moves along so briskly, however, and is packed with so many amusing episodes that the frailty of the plot can well be overlooked. It is obviously not a film for the intelligentsia, for the comedy at best is somewhat rough and often slapstick, but the enthusiasm of Tyrone Power, Jr., Don Ameche and Loretta Young make it a film well worth seeing...
...companion picture this week "The Plot Thickens" features Zazu Pitts and Jimmy Gleason" in a rather stereotype mystery-farce. The culpit, oddly enough, proved to be not the most innocent appearing of the suspects, yet not the one most implicated...
...will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood swarms these days, are Tarkington silhouets made three-dimensional...
...first of the double bill at Keith Memorial Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered...
...picture whose unobtrusively adulterous plot is saved from complete unoriginality only by an unhappy ending, the German film "Liebelie" is surprisingly work seeing. With no attempt at novelty or sensation, it is the completely natural sort of thing that seems to be a monopoly with the German producers...