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LADY FOR A DAY— Columbia
A STORY about an old apple seller's love for the daughter who believes her a society dowager.
May Robson as Apple Annie gives an unforgettable performance. Her drunk scene with the social chatter is an all-time classic; Warren William, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Glenda Farrell as the smart cracking lowlives who play fairy godmother are grand. Jean Parker is the romantic interest.
Highbrows may call this hokey but it's the kind of hoke that makes the movies and the world go round. You'll scream with delight when all the riffraff prepare to impersonate quality folks at the reception, you'll thrill with suspense when the real guests arrive, and you'll breathe the breath of living drama with Annie in her final triumph.
•fe BERKELEY SQUARE— Fox
A COSTUME picture, but it's a criss-cross between eighteenth century London and up-to-the-minute modern life. Leslie Howard, through the agency of an old diary, finds himself in Berkeley Square, London. But his ideas do not go back with him. His modern sophisticated questions amaze the good folk of that bygone day. Only • me person understands him. And the part is played exquisitely by Heather Angel, as Leslie Howard discharges his difficult role. Heather sympathizes, loves, and finally sends Leslie back to our own times. In "Berkeley Square" you will find beauty, laughter, romance and tragedy, all delicately interwoven.
Irene Browne, Valerie Taylor and Alan Mowbray are in the cast. A film as subtly haunting as "Smilin' Through."
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VOLTAIRE— Warners
IT ranks right up beside "Disraeli." this last Arliss picture under the Warner banner.
George Arliss is at his best in this colorful characterization of Voltaire, the great poet-philosopher of France, who so clearly sensed a revolution fermenting among downtrodden people. We see him, sometimes a petulant I perating old man, sometimes a meddler in the affairs of his country and the confidante of Madame Pompadour, the "boudoir-ruler" of France — and always we are conscious of Voltaire, the inspired patriot, who loved France more than he loved life.
The picture centers around an episode which preceded and indirectly fired the country to revolt. Arliss. unable to make the misguided Louis XV realize the error oi his ways, writes and presents i play based on an injustice of the King. Disregarding the pleas oi Pompadour, Louis heeds his evil advisor, Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) and is about to fling Voltaire in the Bastille — when a clever ruse of Voltain 's saves him and brings about do Sarnac's downfall.
Doris Kenvon is an exquisite Pompadour, and Reginald Owen offers a superb interpretation of a weak and vain King. Entire cast up to the Arliss standard, but most of the film footage goes to the star.