Feeling that he is too old for Linda, he decides to fix her up with Dick Reynolds, the young lead actor in his play.

Never notable for any startling excesses of invention, it slows down to a succession of dialogues as it reaches the screen, and is content to be a faithful photographic study of its original.

It is still a mild delight, though, to contemplate the fresh and amusing point of view which is the basis of Accent on Youth.

Mr. Raphaelson has written a comedy which might serve as a sort of amorous supplement to Walter Pitkin's hymn of encouragement to the middle-aged.

"[2] Writing for The Spectator in 1935, Graham Greene described the film as a "dreary comedy", and characterized the acting of Marshall as the "usual canine performance of dumb suffering".