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Bachelor's Affairs (Fox). Given the title of this picture and its motivating situation?a middle-aged gentleman fatigued by his young wife?you would doubtless be prepared to supply an outline of its plot. The outline would be accurate. The young wife has a mercenary sister. The husband has a wealthy friend to whose country estate he pays a visit. Another visitor is a young architect who likes to dance. When the wife and sister arrive, the architect and the wife carry on and are soon arrested for embracing each other on a public highway. This gives the husband...
...From Yesterday (Paramount). Like Bachelor's Affairs, this picture has a familiar plot but it has no spontaneity. It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden. Clive Brook and Claudette Colbert act it as though they were in a trance and if you enter the theatre in the middle of the picture you half expect them to wake up suddenly and discover that they have just been dreaming. Nothing of the sort occurs. Clive Brook is a British officer. Presently he is reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears...
...Marmaduke Grove (Gro-vay) is part Irish. His show of Irish temper to 100% Chilean officers cost him Power. Aristocrats, they were shocked to their military marrow by his notion of 'talking to privates." Promptly they began to plot against "Red" Grove. In 48 hours soldiers under General Augustin Moreno were marching on the Presidential Palace...
...Brookhart defeat was the first of any sitting Senator in 1932. For six years the chunky, sharpshooting Irregular from Iowa had roared & ranted against Wall Street and Big Business. Republican conservatives in the Senate were pleased that his rasping voice would soon be stilled. His Progressive colleagues smelled a plot in the fact that his opposition was divided among five candidates. Senator Brookhart might, they hinted, even run as an independent this autumn...
...Merrily We Go to Hell, the fact that the hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost...