Cinema: Macy's v. Movies

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a party intended to be chic. They mock their swank friend, shock her guests by appearing in tights and waving rudely with burlesque spears. Other ingredients of Stepping Sisters are a fat, intimidating butler, a romance between the daughter of the house and a youth whom she describes as a musical comedy leading man. Good sequence: a disastrous rehearsal for the allegory, in which three squalling children appear as the French, German and Italian National Debts.

This Reckless Age (Paramount) is a discussion of what used to be called "the younger generation," intended to show, with a wealth of platitudes and an unlikely climax, that ill-conducted adolescents are capable of acting generously in an emergency. The emergency in This Reckless Age—which was recklessly adapted from The Goose Hangs High—comes when the father of a flip son (Buddy Rogers) and daughter (Frances Dee) finds that he has made an error in business judgment which is likely to land him in jail. His children help avert this calamity, the daughter by readying herself for marriage to her rich godfather, the son by getting money to offset losses for which his father is responsible. This Reckless Age, which amounts to tactless and uninteresting flagellation of a dead horse, is Rogers' last picture as a contract star with Paramount.