Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936

Reunion (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the second instalment of the fictionized "Biography of the Dionne Quintuplets." In the first chapter, The Country Doctor (TIME, March 16), the famed Five were the most important characters in the story.

In Reunion they are incidental. Chaperoned by their amiable nurse (Dorothy Peterson), for eight of the picture's 80 minutes they waddle about with normal two-year-old awkwardness and silence, blowing horns, tumbling over cribs, pounding a piano, guzzling milk and sucking thumbs in the familiar quinsome way. For the rest of the show they might just as...

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