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...Baroness and the Butler" should have been even better, for the cast--Annabella, William Powell, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson--and sets are considerably better. But banal treatment, poor direction, and a too melodramatic climax, rob the picture of much of its appeal. Shown together, however, the two films make a good double bill, being less similar and probably more entertaining, than this review would indicate...
Most picturesque exhibit is a full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings. Like a Rob Roy setting, complete with the chief's castle, a smithy, an old fashioned inn, a bubbling burn and a 1150-ft. loch, the little village is peopled with tartan-clad Highlanders who obligingly raise a "hooech" and a skirl on the pipes for the wide-eyed visitors...
...jail where she was being held for the murder of a man (presumably Will Hebner) whose skeleton neighbors discovered in her cellar (TIME, April 18). She left a note saying: "I did not kill Will Hebner. He brought me the poison with which I killed myself. . . . I'll rob you of any further fun and cheat the natives out of a Roman holiday...
...closed the evening with a clog dance, all for four shillings, eleven pence. But his greatest acclaim has been from the music halls where his variety turns have topped bills all over the English-speaking world. Already a notable success in cinema, he will later this year make Rob Roy for Gaumont British...
...wholesale sterilization of maniac depressives might in the long run, he said, do more harm than good, for such a move would undoubtedly rob the world of many artistic geniuses...