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"SHOULD LADIES BEHAVE" University

"Should Ladies Behave" screen adaptation of that popular comedy, "The Vinegar Tree" that it is line with the recently surging public demand for film invoicing country houses with a great deal of white wainscote and Alice Brads. Unlike its predecessors in the field it is not graced by the presence of Myrna Loy and Ana Harding; this even if you like the acting of that pair, is a fortunate thing, lending variety.

The plot of the picture deals with the adventures of an old rake in love with a young bud. Conway Tearle, as Max, the rake, is rightly cast and capable. His fortunes are complicated by the presence of Winifred (Katharine Alexander), who has for some time been his mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning woman, is perfectly at home; her lines are among the in the lot, and she delivers them with is which could not is surpassed. Lionel Bartymore, as grouohy Angustus, Laura's husband his usual fine, interpretation. The whole cast dovetail with each other and with the play, and the result is a smooth propulsion far more convincing than the average movie and far more amusing than the average comedy.

"Sitting Pretty," the other picture, is hardly in the same class as its companion, it is, however, good of its kind. It is the run-of-the-mill musical comedy, Hollywood style. Its greatest virtues lie in the unusual amount of good music and in the personality and general form of Miss Ginger Rogers. Such songs as "I Wants Meander with Miranda," "Good Morning Glory," and "Did You Ever See a Dram Walking" all currently popular, are to be found scattered through the course of the film. The plot, if the faint trend of connected story may be so designated, concerns a couple of song writers busting the Hollywood fences, aided and abetted by Ginger; it is novel enough, and the whole is entertaining.

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