As an ambitious dress model who rises to the top through chance, Kay Francis plays the lead opposite Claude Rains in "Stolen Holiday", feature picture of a mediocre show at the University. Playing the part of Mademoiselle Nicole Picot, she is completely taken in by a crooked financier, Stefan Orloff, who gives her everything she wants, until she is owner of the greatest fashion shop in Paris and at the top of Paris society.

Of course the plot comes to the natural conclusion: Orloff is found out, and Nicole Picot, bitterly disillusioned, none-the-less stands by him to the end, ending up by marrying her true lover, English diplomat Anthony Wayne. This commonplace plot is somewhat remedied by the acting of Francis and Rains, and in case you're interested in women's dresses, there's always the fashion show put on at the Maison Picot.

Eddie Cantor has turned up some strange talent on his radio shows, but none is much worse than little Bobby Breen, his romantic singing youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses.

Bobby here is an orphan being brought up by an ex-slave way down south. Suddenly it appears that he is to inherit a large fortune and so he travels north to stay with his Yankee relatives, a Mr. and Mrs. Layton and his grandmother, played by May Robeson. The parents stumble through an impossible role as a stupid, unimaginative couple, the kind only Hollywood can discover.