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Suspense is retained until the end in a manner as logical as possible for so improbable a plot. We like the clever and unobtrusive employment of local color, the same condensation of a day of terrific action, and above all the work of Douglas Fairbanks...
Strangers in Love (Paramount) was not strenuously publicized before release. Its derivation, a forgotten fiction by William J. Locke, was no literary masterpiece. Its plot revolves about the old-fashioned problem of dual identity and its cast (Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, George Barbier) is only up to the Hollywood average. It would be too much to say that the finished product is brilliant or surprising, but it is consistently enjoyable. Everyone concerned with the story seems very much at home in its surroundings; the cinema has been doing this sort of thing for a long time...
...rather beautiful divorce-lawyer's secretary is asked in holy matrimony by a young hospital interne. She refuses to indulge in more than an extralegal mesalliance because her employer's many unhappy clients have embued her with a fear of marriage. Producers saw the novelty coincident to reversing the plot of the deserted girl. Abandoned by the honest young man, our maiden decides to play an age--old game with the none too platonic lawyer. She soon moves into an apartment of a magnificence which only movie "prop" mon can know. She fails to develop her side of the relationship...
...plot briefly is that Ethelyn Church, the talented daughter, must win a five thousand dollar prize and a trip to Europe if only to get her mother, a thorough meanie, out of the house to make way for Dudley's affianced, Christine. If she does win, however, she loses her beloved Robert and is doomed to a career abroad, dogged by her relentless mother. Dudley cavorts in the midst of all this in a galaxy of slamming doors, back slappings, protest meetings, silver cup awards, and fruitless "touches" for amounts varying from five dollars to five thousand...
...opportunity to see to what lengths beings the wife of a professor will drive a leading lady. In "Uncle Vanya," which the Studio Players recently put on, and in "Hedda Gabbler", which Blanche Yurka opened Monday night, the lady becomes so bored with her existence that she makes a plot for Chekov or for Ibsen. Perhaps because, in the pattern of an older generation, there were no clubs or sports to keep women busy, or because they congenitally lacked any insight or interest in research before the days of women's colleges, their only outlet lay in society or love...