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...half Marx brothers. When the Marx Brothers were playing Animal Crackers on the stage, Producer Sam H. Harris said to him: "Can't you get a little more variety into your performance?" Replied Zeppo: "Just how many ways are there of saying yes?" The Gay Diplomat (RKO Radio) is a routine spy story which contains the one necessary new factor in the spy story formula. This factor consists in having two beautiful women both suspected of being spies. One of them, the heroine (Genevieve Tobin), proves to be innocent. The other (Betty Compson) is trapped by a handsome Rumanian...
Devotion (RKO Pathe) is far from being a significant picture nor did it deserve the battery of skyscraping searchlights which it received at its premiere in Hollywood. It is, however, a wholly engaging trifle of sentimental comedy, lightened and made to sparkle by the acting of Ann Harding and Leslie Howard, whose slow progress toward cinematic celebrity is a reflection on his employers. The story is a revised version of the Cinderella legend concerning a girl whose parents have overlooked her charms. To attract the attention of a young barrister, the girl is forced to accept employment as nursery governess...
...Common Law (RKO Pathé). First essential of a problem play is a problem. Since the problem which is the excuse for this picture ceased to exist a long time ago, the play is consistently a bore. It concerns an artist's model who has had an affair with an American in Paris. This misdemeanor makes her very reluctant about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle...
When she signed an RKO Pathé contract in 1929 Constance was shrewd enough to insist on a ten-week holiday every year. Recently she spent this holiday working for Warner Brothers at $30,000 a week, highest salary ever paid to a cinemactress. Last week she left Hollywood for a trip to Europe with a quick stop-over in Manhattan. Her companion on train and boat (adjacent staterooms) was the Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, estranged husband of Gloria Swanson...
When he appeared in Hollywood in the entourage of Cinemactress Swanson five years ago, the Marquis became acclimated quickly. When Cinemactress Swanson lost interest in him, he gave proof of a shrewd business head by securing Constance Bennett for RKO Pathé, where he was hired to supervise and direct talkies made for exportation to France. An alliance too open to be a scandal had existed between the Marquis and Constance before and since. On embarking for Europe last week, Cinemactress Bennett said there were no plans for a marriage, implied that there might be after Cinemactress Swanson gets...