It is a rare occasion when one can go to a movie and emit unrestrained guffaws for an hour and a half. "The Women in His Life" gives you this opportunity. And you can thank that superb actor Otto Kruger, who was considered a shot in the legitimate theatre. He bounds boisterously about the sets as though he were a drunken arthropod. His eyes roll diabolically, his cheeks puff, his ears crackle when he is aroused. What an actor!

Otto Kruger, as a talented criminal lawyer, has numerous affairs with women, always, however, with an indifferent attitude, for he still loves his wife who had left him many years before. A young girl comes to his office to ask him to defend her father, being tried for the murder of her step-mother. "He's innocent. Step-mother ran around lots, but pa did not mind. . . . He's an old and innocent man." When Otto Kruger sees the picture of the lady in question, he gurgles rudely, and then orders the girl and his junior partner to leave. "My love, ahhh, ooo." And he crushes the picture and frame and glass as gracefully as he would squeeze a rancid orange.

"Her Lips Betray" stars the inimitable Miss Harvey with the burlesque singing voice, and a sonorous speaking voice. Variety reports that her B.O. is very poor in American pictures, and this seems unaccountable after her success in "Congress Dances" unless one considers that a guttural vocabulary disguises a voice very effectively at times. In this movie, Miss Harvey aspires to be a great dancer and is well on her way to fame when she falls, breaks a leg, and is temporarily crippled. An admirer of hers who runs a puppet show, invites her to take up his profession. There are several of Podrecca's puppet interludes which are quite refreshing. We do not see why Miss Harvey grew to loathe the puppets, as that loathing drew her back to the stage, but the last scenes of the skillfully manipulated puppets make everything balance nicely.