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Huddle
Metro-Goldtvyn-Mayer
Ramon Novarro is surprisingly good as a football player. This is an entirely different role for him and he scores a touchdown. Novarro plays a poor Italian lad who receives a scholarship to Yale. The film concerns itself with Ramon's change of environment, his education, making the football team, and winning Madge Evans. Henry Armetta is excellent. Ramon does fine work.
The Trial of Vivienne Ware Fox
This is a directorial feat! Hats off to William K. Howard for his clever camera tricks, and for the action and suspense he sustains in a rather mediocre story. Joan Bennett is lovely as the heroine suspected of murdering her play-boy fiance. Allan Dinehart, from the stage, is keen. ZaSu Pitts, as a sob-sister, and Skeets Gallagher, as a radio announcer, supply the laughs.
Two Seconds
First National
Depressing melodrama. This sordid tale of a riveter who murders his dance-hall wife is not a very happy selection for Edward G. Robinson. Awaiting a murderer's end in the chair, Eddie reviews his life and misfortunes in "two seconds." Robinson over-acts. Vivienne Osborne, as the dance-hall girl, does excellent work. You'll like good-looking Preston Foster.
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The Woman in Room 13 Fox
Murder, suicide, and blackmail are the ingredients mixed for this film. Result — fair entertainment. But Elissa Landi makes up for that. She looks lovely and her acting is excellent. Elissa divorces Ralph Bellamy (in the picture, of course) and wrecks his political career — at least Ralph thinks so. So Bellamy devotes his time trying to wreck Elissa's marriage to handsome Neil Hamilton.
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
First National
Swell comedy -drama. Lee Tracy plays a wisecracking reporter, and Ann Dvorak a shady lady who gets involved in a gangsterpolice fracas, but you won't take it too seriously — Tracy sees to that with his fast patter. Ann Dvorak is excellent as Molly Louvain, the "tinsel girl." The acting honors are shared by Tracy and Ann. Richard Cromwell plays a nice boy nicely.
Trapeze Harmonie
Introducing Anna Sten, whom you'll see in our American pictures soon. She's pretty, and a good little actress. Reinhold Bernt plays opposite her. The picture has a circus background, and is reminiscent of "Variety," Emil Jannings' silent classic. There's a jealous husband, a perilous trapeze trick, and lurking tragedy. This is a German film but the dialogue is translated for you.