Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1933

Lilly Turner (First National), played by Ruth Chatterton, is a small town girl whose first marriage turns out disastrously when she learns that her husband, a loud-mouthed magician, is a bigamist. A bibulous sideshow barker (Frank McHugh) marries her to save her from the disgrace of having an illegitimate child and Lilly Turner spends the rest of the picture gloomily giving him money to buy whiskey. They leave their carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights...

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