The New Pictures

Warming Up. Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.

Telling the World. Disinherited by his banker-father though he is, the hail-fellow (William Haines) strides into a newspaper office and tells the city editor he wants a job. His first assignment is to interview his father. Another assignment is to cover a murder case, in which a girl is wrongfully accused. He neglects to make the edition and goes running off to China with the girl. Things like that do not happen to newspaper reporters.