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...week's end the Government finished cross-examining Secretary Johnson, turned him back to counsel for Mellon. For two and one-half hours, face flushed and eyes snapping, Lawyer Hogan peppered the Government's charges and innuendoes with crackling sarcasm and Irish wit. But when the fireworks were over the only memorable fact to stand revealed was that in 1931 Andrew Mellon was worth some...
...scrapped. In its place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...
...left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress are suspected of killing a night-club person. Mobilizing vast resources of wit, charm, and coolheadedness, Miss Collier leaves her house in her electric motor car, competently brings the niggling little mystery to its proper conclusion. A minor mystery to cinemagoers is the nature of the locale of a rough-&-tumble which winds up the picture. Unexplained by any dialog, it resembles a ruined cathedral...
...placed them in the balcony. The audience thus takes the cast by storm, its superb banalities so drowning speech on the stage as to make the play seem a pantomine. Too bad, for I recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This time I was able to rescue just a few from the crowd, particularly this throaty declamation, with gestures, "You a man? God made a blunder." The rough simplicity of the ballad, "She is more to be pitied than censured (for a man was the cause...
...member of the Liberal Club. I am not very much interested in the activities of the Liberal Club. But I am interested in the stupidities, inanities, and childish attempts at wit which make the reputation of Harvard's undergraduate newspaper, and thereby to a large extent of Harvard's undergraduates...