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State's Attorney (RKO) shows John Barrymore himself making an address to a jury which is surely as impassioned as the one (in A Free Soul) which last year got his brother Lionel a prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is a criminal lawyer named Tom Corrigan, inclined to making cynical observations on the discrepancies between justice and the law. One evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William...
Symphony of Six Million (RKO). The warm, prolix emotion which Fannie Hurst put into her story about a young Jewish doctor on Manhattan's East Side is strongly translated in this picture. Felix (Ricardo Cortez), humbly set up with a backroom for an office, finds few paying patients. He has long hard hours at a neighborhood clinic. It is his idea of happiness, however, to know that he is relieving a little the suffering he has seen everywhere about him since childhood. His fame but not his wealth grows until, realizing a debt to his family, he becomes a fashionable...
...part when he explained that he was no Spaniard but a Jew, gives a sensitive and humble portrayal. Max Steiner's musical score is particularly interesting when it blends with and loses itself in the murmuring of the streets. Symphony of Six Million is the second output from RKO since young David Selznick took charge of its production (TIME, Nov. 16). Like "The Lost Squadron," it indicates that he well knows what he is about...
Ladies of the Jury (RKO) takes a situation which cinema generally treats as melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court...
Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...