The New Pictures

Thirty Day Princess (Paramount) shows how complicated the flotation of an international bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17-c- in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon

Nancy Lane, hire her as a substitute Princess for $10,000. Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted. Typical shot: Nancy lulling the publisher's suspicions that she is also the Princess by chewing gum eating with her knife.

Glamour (Universal) from a story by Edna Ferber, is a preachment on the vanity of the flesh. While rehearsing in the chorus of a new show Linda Fayne (Constance Cummings) decides to reach star dom by plaguing the show's composer, Victor Banki (Paul Lukas), into writing a song especially for her. So charmingly does she plague that she gets Victor in stead. Marriage to Victor brings her no nearer to success on the stage, and she is ready to give up her ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby. Delivered of a baby, Linda gives up singing for dancing, shoots overnight to stardom. A few good hits behind her, and she falls in love with her newest leading man, handsome wasp-waisted Lorenzo Valenti (Philip Reed). She divorces Victor, leaves her baby, runs off to London with Lorenzo. Her new husband's infidelity sends her back to the U. S. just in time to be shut out of a room in which her baby is dying. Older, and presumably wiser, she decides to rejoin Victor, begins planning a new show with him.

As long as it remains a comedy of manners, Glamour is a workmanlike production. But its sudden change of pace to a tragedy of morals proved too much for Director William Wyler. Typical shot: Linda and Victor assuring each other that they "don't want to be melodramatic" as they say goodby.

Change of Heart (Fox). Long the most popular romantic team in cinema, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell last appeared together in Tess of the Storm Country two years ago. Hollywood gossip to the effect that they were separated because of objections by Miss Gaynors husband seemed confirmed when she sued Lydell Peck, Fox executive, for divorce, charged "unreasonable jealousy." Last month Miss Gaynor's divorce from Lydell Peck became final. Now in Change of Heart she and Farrell are happily reunited. Neither homely nor comely, Miss Gaynor brings to her new role all the old sentimentality which made her the screen's No. 1 popular actress following her appearance with Farrell in Seventh Heaven.

In Change of Heart the triangle becomes a rectangle, with matters complicated accordingly. To Manhattan seeking careers go four young college graduates (Gaynor, Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers). Like figures on an Egyptian bas-relief, they love in profile: Dunn loves Gaynor who loves Farrell who loves Rogers who loves all the boys. When Ginger Rogers marries a rich Broadwayite, Farrell goes into a sickly decline. Miss Gaynor nurses him back to health, marries him, keeps him from sinning with sprightly Ginger Rogers, who finds consolation in breezy Jimmy Dunn. Good shot: Janet Gaynor shaving Charles Farrell.

The Crime Doctor (RKO-Radio) is suave Otto Kruger. As a famed criminologist, he plans and executes the "Perfect Crime" to avenge his wife's infidelity. His method: 1) A pretty blackmailer (Judith Wood) is planted as a spy in an apartment adjoining that of his wife's lover (Nils Asther); 2) Kruger steals a pistol from Asther's apartment; 3) he makes the blonde blackmailer write Asther a threatening letter; 4) he kills her with Asther's gun; 5) he plants the blackmail letter in the fireplace as a clue.

Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder.

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