The New Picture

Back in Circulation (First National) should please cinemaddicts who admire portrayals of brash reporters and nail-hard editors whose presses must be fed regardless of human cost. This time the brazen star reporter is a female named Timmy Blake (Joan Blondell). She loves her apparently unconcerned managing editor, Bill Morgan (Pat O'Brien). He loves her too but has no time for foolishness. Between the first sequence and the last, Joan Blondell swoops through a breathlessly foreshortened flight of pseudo-newsfalconry. She gets an innocent woman indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook to the jaw. In the best traditions of the temperamental reporter, she several times resigns her job, with equal fidelity to tradition cannot resist grabbing it back when a hot story breaks right under her nose, punctuates her progress by the tintinnabulations of shattering glass doors as she flounces in & out of offices.