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Unabashed, Mexican authorities announced that the whole thing was a plot of the Vasconcelistas, partisans of defeated Presidential candidate Jose Vasconcelos. Safe in Los Angeles, Senor Vasconcelos commented...
...discernible that the fence is a symbol for an orthodox snugness within which the conventional wife tries to inclose her imaginative, vaulting husband. But Playwright Burnet's dramatic sense is by no means as lucid as his psychology, and his taste is woeful. The theme is obscured in a plot stuffed with nonessentials. Otto Kruger acts the poet valiantly despite dialog which makes him speak like a moonstruck sixth-former...
...Hallelujah" scene is presented very effectively, and the singing is some of the best that has appeared in the sound pictures. In fact, the entire vocal side of the picture is more than satisfactory. The plot is an exact adaptation of the original musical comedy as are some of the scenes, but this is by no means unpleasant...
Josef Suss. The revenge plot, which occurred so often in early drama, is no longer considered exciting stuff. For revenge is stimulated by rage and rage is too direct and elementary an emotion to interest modern playgoers. Therefore this handsomely apparelled drama about a rich Jew of Württemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss...
...McEvoy and Director Millard Webb have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor in an old act from the Ziegfeld Follies...