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...some quips which may cause some cinemagoers to wonder what Will Hays is doing. Typical sequence: a drunk loudly advocating that "Our merchandise be placed in slot machines on every corner, in case of emergency" only to discover that he is in the wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive comedies based on the real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like...
...Were Free (RKO). In the current revival of law in the cinema, Gordon Evers (Clive Brook) in If I Were Free, qualifies for a peculiar niche. He is not a daring semi-shyster like George Simon and Ernest Barringer. He is a London barrister in wig or silk hat. He has no office. But, like the others, he does have an unhappy love life and a thirst...
...Right to Romance (RKO). The problem child of RKO, Ann Harding, appears always in pictures which take the pulse of such throbbing questions as the double standard, woman's place in the home or how much a girl should tell her fiancé. This time she is a celebrated facial surgeon, successful in her profession but harassed by longings for Romance. She marries a playboy (Robert Young) whose chief interests are listening to football games on the radio and looping-the-loop, only to discover her mistake in time to patch up after an airplane crash the face...
After Tonight (RKO). International spies in the cinema should by this time know better than to fall in love. Invariably a spy's inamorata is also a spy. When the spies find out about each other it usually produces a sadder situation than the one that arises in this picture. Constance Bennett is operative K-14 of Russia. When she is not warming up scraps of paper to make legible their messages in invisible ink she is lolling crisply in the arms of a Viennese secret agent (Gilbert Roland) and saying in her Parkavian voice how much she loves...
...RKO-Radio). Crossing its fingers behind a burlesqued title, this film is a clumsy attempt to satirize the cinema theme of regeneration. But Director Mark Sandrich and several up-&-coming young actors have an attractively lighthearted time with the heavyhanded script. As Aggie the regenerator Wynne Gibson is a slum beauty weary of the hands of men but wearily willing to go to bed for a night's lodging. Beetle-browed young William Gargan plays Red Branahan, the alley tough who could make a dishonest living if he could ever bring himself to run away from the police. After...