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...Family Tree (RKO) is the one about Pat and Mike. Pat (James Barton) is Patrick Murphy, an aging Dublin saloonkeeper who, arriving in the U. S. to discover what has become of his son Charles, finds him running for Mayor of Central City, Iowa, and married to a social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally...
...RKO Boston--"Mad Love...
...Return of Peter Grimm (RKO). Lionel Barrymore is the cantankerous florist who, feeling a cold breath on his cheek, hastily completes arrangements to perpetuate the two projects dearest to his heart: his nurseries, and the happiness of his ward, Helen Mack. When, after death, he discovers that his plans will result only in decimating the first and stultifying the second he comes back. He has trouble getting through to the living at first, finally finds a doorway open to him-the mind of a child (George Breakston) who is slipping over into his world. Through that youngster he saves...
...best color film: RKO's Becky Sharp (TIME...
...RKO). When Hollywood revived musical films three years ago, dancing was monopolized by Director Busby Berkely and his imitators. The height of their inventions was reached in Footlight Parade, which showed a chorus massed to represent the U. S. flag. When Dancer Fred Astaire first appeared in Hollywood, he was deemed too lacking in acting ability and sex appeal to do more than a momentary turn in Dancing Lady, for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him from RKO. That bit made Astaire one of the five biggest box-office names in the industry. Teamed with Ginger Rogers?an almost equally...