Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 8, 1937

Angel (Paramount) concerns Lady Maria's (Marlene Dietrich) rather pathetic effort to cast off her loyalty to her diplomat husband, Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall). Angel is not a slut but a wife whose fidelity has been overstrained by Sir Frederick's immersion in diplomacy. And he, for all his fine deliberate charm, is the type of fellow who. when his wife tells him that she has been dreaming, immediately asks: "Of me?"

Lady Maria has already had a bit of a Paris fling with one Anthony Horton (Melvyn Douglas). With some help from coincidence, Sir...

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