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...Consent (RKO) is a serious cinema of college love. Richard Cromwell quarrels with his sweetheart, Dorothy Wilson, later apologizes and is forgiven, proposes marriage. She tells him to finish his remaining two years in college. After a spinster teacher tells her how she once was similarly magnanimous, Dorothy changes her mind, telephones Richard. But he is compromising himself with a waitress, Arlene Judge, who presently gets her father and demands marriage. Dorothy Wilson consoles herself by a ride in the snappy car of Eric Linden, a smart-cracking admirer. They turn over, Linden is mortally injured. Dorothy Wilson...
Roar of the Dragon (RKO) is a cinema story of what happens to Occidentals caught in China when good Chinese are away at the wars and the bandits whistle in the treetops. The chief bandit is Voronsky (C. Henry Gordon) whose whispered name is enough to send Chinese Paul Reveres scudding over the country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid...
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Bring 'Em Back Alive (RKO) will probably be one of the most profitable pictures of the year. It did not cost much. RKO bought the rights to Frank Buck's book, telling how he captured live wild animals for U. S. zoological gardens (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930), then despatched Author Buck to Sumatra with a director and two cameramen to take pictures of the procedure. Director Clyde E. Elliott knew that people like wild animal cinemas for the same reason that they like the tigers in the circus. Remembering UFA's brilliant short of a fight between a mongoose...
What Price Hollywood (RKO). Hollywood stories, about the vagaries of cinema producers, the diversions of their employes, reached the dignity of the stage two years ago in Once in a Lifetime. Last year Howard Hughes wanted to make a savage picture about Hollywood called Queer People. He was dissuaded. What-Price Hollywood is the first cinema upon the subject...