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Break of Hearts (RKO) is the story of the fascinating orchestra leader, adored by women generally, and his beautiful wife, adored by the orchestra leader's playboy crony in particular, and the difficulties which they cause each other before achieving final reconciliation. When the wife leaves the orchestra leader, she runs into such troubles as alcoholism, fainting spells and fits of giggles to conceal her breaking heart. When she refuses to take him back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed at double bills, remarkable in Break of Hearts, is that herein they are the vehicle for two such Hollywood celebrities as Charles Boyer and Katharine Hepburn.

Still performing as the heroine of Little Women, Miss Hepburn makes it clear that unless her employers see fit to restore her to roles in keeping with her mannerisms, these will presently annoy cinemaddicts into forgetting that she is really an actress of great promise and considerable style. As the orchestra leader, Charles Boyer manages to make the defeat which he receives from his material comparatively graceful. Worst shot: the hero telling the heroine how little he has loved the mistresses whose photographs hang in his living room.

Age of Indiscretion (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) investigates the marital mishaps of the Lenhart family, Robert (Paul Lukas), Eve (Helen Vinson) and small Bill (David Jack Holt). Eve runs off with a worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds.

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