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...Animal Kingdom (RKO) is a story about a high-strung young publisher who deserts his deserving mistress to marry a designing wife; and who goes back to the mistress when he realizes that his wife has been using her physical appeal to make him betray his esthetic ideals in favor of mundane advantages which she considers more important. What gave Author Barry's idea its novelty when it was successfully produced as a play last year was the fact that the roles usually assigned to wife and mistress in such a triangle were reversed. Under the sharp beam...
...from a German concern in 1928) was brought to trial in Brooklyn. Under the name American Tri-Ergon Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph's Western Electric. Both Wall Street and Hollywood regard the suits as Mr. Fox's bid for a comeback in the film field. From the $100,000,000 or more that the industry has taken...
...Half Naked Truth (RKO...
...puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical comedy star, she goes back to cooch dancing when the spieler publicizes another carnival wench in connection with a nudist colony. Possibly because preview audiences were so enthusiastic about The Half Naked Truth, RKO last fortnight ceased bickering with Cinemactor Tracy about his salary, which was withheld when he frequently failed to appear on the set. Terms of the agreement: $1,750, half of the salary due Cinemactor Tracy to be paid immediately, half when he has made his next picture for RKO...
...Conquerors (RKO) is a somewhat editorial epic urging cinemaddicts not to sell the U. S. short. It starts in the post-Civil War Depression, shows Richard Dix and Ann Harding, newly married and in financial straits, setting out for the West. Richard Dix is shot by the Slade Boys. He stops to recover in a Midwest village, settles down there to start a bank and a family. His small son is run over by the first train that goes through the town. His daughter grows up to look a great deal like Ann Harding, marries a teller in the bank...