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Critical Comment
Sin Takes a Holiday Pathe
A shallow society comedy in which Constance Bennett's talents are wasted. However, Connie wears lovely clothes and this is reason enough to see the picture. Kenneth MacKenna and Basil Rathbone are interesting male support. This film tried to be smart and sophisticated but didn't live up to its promise.
The Bat Whispers United Artists
Thrills, chills and Chester Morris. If you like mystery plays you'll go for this talker; it has all the ingredients that make for mystery drama, in fact, you even begin to suspect yourself. Una Merkel makes the most of the heroine role. Zasu Pitts is grand as usual — so's Chester Morris! Good entertainment.
The Dancers Fox
Lois Moran in a sophisticated part and Phillips Holmes as a lumber-jack — can you imagine that? From the stage play by the famous Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Viola Tree, this rambling film of young English lovers starts out well but falls by the way. The famous Mrs. Patrick Campbell is in the cast.
The Lash First National
Formerly titled "Adios," this picture gives you Dick Barthelmess as a romantic, hot-tempered Mexican, surrounded by such pulchritude as Mary Astor and Marian Nixon. It's a story of early California and is filled with ardent love-making, and antics that Dick has not indulged in since his prep-movie-school days.
Playboy of Paris Paramount
Maurice Chevalier plays a waiter who inherits a fortune. The proprietor of the cafe hears about it first and signs Maurice to a twenty-year contract with a catch to it. Chevalier is far superior to the plot; Frances Dee, the girl, is nice but miscast; Stuart Erwin is very funny. Amusing in spots.
Brothers Columbia
Bert Lytell plays twins — foundlings. The boys meet thirty years later. The rich twin is a lawyer and careless of his morals ; the poor boy has a heart of gold and pinch-hits for his luckier brother when he dies. Lytell gives a sterling performance in a dual role. Dorothy Sebastian is a lovely heroine.