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...general plot is not one of originality, but it is handled by the author in a fresh and stimulating way. The director, unfortunately seemed to be unable to decide whether he was photographing a stage play or making a motion picture. The result is that the possibilities of a movie are not touched, but his material was of such a high caliber that the production still remains a success...
Frankie & Johnnie. The best that can be said of Frankie & Johnnie is that it is a well-staged lithograph. Scenes along the St. Louis river front are ably documented, the light ladies, gamblers, saloon inhabitants are clothed without anachronism. The plot adheres rather faithfully to the plot of the song. Most variations of the ballad agree that Frankie (a harlot) and Johnnie (a pander) were lovers- "And Oh, my God how they did love." Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits. Then it appears that Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie...
...Office Wife (Warner). This will have one automatic public in the people who read Faith Baldwin's magazine story and another in those who will feel the pull of the splendid box-office title. To criticize the plot because it is familiar would be absurd, for its familiarity is its greatest strength. To be effective as drama the love-rivalry between an executive's secretary and his wife should have been worked out with far more specific, individual detail. But the producers developed it stupidly, could not keep improbability out of a situation and background so thoroughly within the experience...
...Wedding Night (Paramount). Out of a complicated and rapid plot derived from an old bedroom farce (Little Miss Bluebeard) has been drawn the mood of good humor that is this picture's main distinction. Clara Bow does nothing much but does it with her usual vitality. A picture star having fun in Europe, she is married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does...
...Chicago the Civic Opera Company did the unusual, chose no well-proven piece for curtain-raiser, no outstanding soprano. For its first night, also Oct. 27, it will present the U. S. premiere of Frenchman Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, an adaptation of a carnal plot by Alfred de Musset, with Baritone Vanni-Marcoux singing the title role created by him ten years ago in Paris...