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_AMUSEMENTS._ , Muni’s'Rare Talent Gives BROADWAY BILL Cantor Picture Favored CONTINUES ON Screen’s Best Bad Girl I national l™ ~.. BBf MAT.. TOOAT, I “Bordertown” Its Appeal DIZZY COURSE By Beauty in Lavish Style Me to »?.■:•. I CAPRA’S "Broadway Bill,” pRANK “Kid Millions" Lacks Inspired Music and Star ■ Star at Earle Is Vigorous and Unaffected. simultaneously the best and worst ISlfOKPr^ Wll IV LAWRENCE LANCNER W ARMINA MARMAil I of modern flickers anent horse racing, Is Indebted to Associates for §§ <Lak0U lulsulT Of HAPl'NisS* Excellent in «"» r.i. C»,T Montgomery and Ann Harding has been reinstated downtown, appear- ■ ■or ATWHiltKA CHASE GLtMWAItOfW Bachelor Girl at Fox. ing for the moment at Warner Bros. Some Features. “Biography of WORLEJ prrmiekf: Metropolitan Theater. To approxi- _ Kert Monday. Sente Selltn*. and one- H] mately ninety-nine forty-four 'A CANTOR has $77,000,000 and a whole of ; Alex Tokel prroent* BY E. it S. MELCHER. hundreths of the people who behold covey lovely ladies all to himself in his latest picture, “Kid Millions,” 1 Paul Muni’s this week in “Bordertown,” Warner Baxter and Myma Loy put- ■ “3 MEN ON A make-up which opened here yesterday at the Palace Theater. That ! HORSE" at the will not endear him as a first-class the A New Comedy by Earle, probably ting romance through dizzy paces, EDDIEshould be enough to compensate him for the lack of a to the his John Cecil Holm and l«rorge Abbott matinee idol younger chewipg-gum public, per- insinuations of of in musical ■ ^ negative yon paradox number other commodities useful comedy existence, with a brilliant cant of coned ojxn. is a Muni ALTHOUGHformance, on the whole, typical performance- as will seem unfair' The other what- such good songs, an amusing book and top comedy material. Staged by Mr. Abbott being vigorous, simple, unaffected and believable. He is one of ever-lt-is hundreths will Insist that a How you will feel about it, however, we cannot venture to Nights, ft jr to 12.75. Mats. Red those rare actors whose talents don’t seem to be thrown pell-mell H Ml Sat., 55c to 92.20 predict, not knowing your capacity for enjoyment of a show into the teeth of the camera. You don’t feel that the drama technically so Inaccurate can- j very consisting almost entirely of Mr. Cantor, beautifully staged scenes, | Wmmmmwmmmmm’’ director has told him of course, he “Now, Mr. Muni, not be a classic. (which, has), in which some of the world’s best-looking chorus girls stroll about, can walk from here to here” (these words punctuated with you You will find it fairly difficult to chanting prettily, a few splendid interludes with Miss Ethel chalk mark^) ."’•and you may turn your head just so far to the decide which is the more exciting, Merman, songbird of the torch, and Warren Hymer, who steals . in order to in the etc. bmu via right stay picture,” love or stake races, whilst “Broadway the comedy honors with the greatest of ease. Tiitir iiiuuuu iietcaaitica tin; nauvii ai vauuvu§u wic * w»v ^ pmuic Bill” is on the screen. Mr. Baxter * * * * factory, whence he dispenses tecnni- Muni sweeps aside with any gesture been trimmed a bit), Una Merkel and and Miss Loy are two handsome argu- of to to have at the others all their CHOULD you own to a predilection colored sweets free charge he happens hand. And speak speeches ments in favor of the former sport, J for feminine Mil- w hen he is either in close-up or long- with meticulous care and considerable but the camera concentrates so deeply beauty, "Kid children. it lions” will it. some shot he retains that naturalness which charm. But is Robert Montgom- on the home life of a nag named Bill satisfy Otherwise, Vast amounts of money have been Robt.MONTCOMERYj well in V &<LckjU£rl makes alj of his characterizations ery’s show. Less whimsical, more be- that one’s Interest strays into con- disappointment may ycur spent to narrate all this in lavish tUoyMpku cfa Ql^th heart, after that the ditties \\Awi4l strikingly original. lievable, still a good actor, Montgom- templation of fetlocks, dispensing with discovering terms, but as usual, the technical IDWAROFVfRiTTHORTO'lNAMIIUtl/^ oft with the in his Mr. Cantor is are “Bordertown” is an effective melo- ery walks play the usual preoccupation with celluloid plugging currently crew comes off best, performing its no more than drama. Its path Is not absolutely pocket. If he isn’t careful one of smiles and sighs. inspiring "O. K. Toots,” scenic duties with impressive skill, that his comedy is neither as frenetic straight—and Its mission does not do these days he may even be the screen’s Although it registers a new high in whilst the great minds behind the gags ^ALEXHYDE . He’s not far from it now. nor as funny as in the and that much credit to our side of the fence— best actor. effective melodrama of the turf, Mr. past, and music were somewhat less agile. HIS MELODY BOYS divers other sins of omission have been ({ Mr. Muni going back to “his people” * * * * Capra’s galloping saga is riddled with we could have struggled \ \. iU'.z/ot/uA au'itmu&tcA in Personally, with a deal in his none committed the production of this O^vauoeviue acts7^ (Mexico) good V\/ONDER what Tschalkovsky would practical inaccuracies, of which along with one less artificial cow and favor. But since he has made a ” will hurt much unless yarn. think if he could hear some of very you happen one more good dialogue sequence, but, _ _ hash out of a since “Kid Millions” has a plot slightly being lawyer, his “Fourth Symphony” being played to be a stickler for form in such then, you never can tell how the pub- RAMON NOVARRO* EVELYN IAYE he has made a hash out of what he batty, even for a musical show, re- j <#*THE NIGHT ISYOUNG' on a vaudeville bill, with half the matters. lie is going to feel about a cow. r would be love and In tailing the adventures of a harbor BAKErW/m/RADIO REVUt hoped marriage, orchestra in the and half the or- The tale involves Mr. Baxter Also in the cast are Ann Sothern, ■cfez^PHIL pit urchin who j since he has been the cause for mur- the a inherits a vast fortune chestra (plus a barrage of saxophones) paper-box business, profession beautiful and ineffectual as the in- der and for it Is he has and skips off to Egypt to collect. Com- madness, possibly on the stage! Wonder what he would not to his taste, Inasmuch as genue; George Murphy, new low in j about time that he turned his other tasted blood around the race plications arise from a phony S’uthun think, too, if he could see three attrac- once juvenile tenors, and Block and Sully, j cheek to California and scuttled back kunnel badly interpreted by Berton tive red-headed Californians, plus tracks. When given the choice be- one of the better vaudeville teams with Mamma Ramirez to those with his Churchill, from a gangster and his Rita Rio, the most exciting performer tween his hoss, his wife and gone gelatin. whom he could be more tolerant and he chucks over the latter gal (Warren Hymer and Miss Merman, seen here in a long time, plus Alex business, Some of the better bits are con- who were to us the saving graces of understanding. Hyde bowing to the applause! pair and returns to racing. Miss Loy, tributed by a colored boy. who is a Muni’s sin in case Baxter's anti- the film), and from a silly sultan, odd this is ambition. The answer to all this is that he a sister of the errant tap-dancing marvel twe don't mean I ANN You see him first as one of the for- wife, admires his so enough to believe that tlie jewels of dark-skinned ^KIDMIlLIONSyTTfra 1 EOTHERN'// would not only be surprised but he equestrian spirit the half-pint, infant), in a his ancestors should belong to him laurel tunates graduating class of "law- would also be pleased. While it much she chases after him, helps: and the salubrious smiles of the \ BLOCKX\\A\y// You see him next out a race won that, and not to a lot of strange Americans I yers.” in the wouldn’t hurt at all to get the two him get big and all j soubrettes. I &H^RDY /Ur.T(Jtt^Tc• world his over his first Walter Helen Vinson and * * * * I I'LIVES Of a BENGAL LANCER* losing temper orchestras a mite nearer together, Connolly, The Palace program this week also .THtlSW I SARy law case. You see him then as a dis- undertake the with sundry other capable people assist BEY CANTOR gets the lists a Laurel and Hardy comedy of 1 COOPt R^RanXHOT TONE they symphony ■*-*pDDIE appointed and disbarred lawyer, who in the cast. of it back moderate a cartoon and the real spirit and feeling and the result money, course, and puts merit, Wwvti&M * * makes out of which The Met also has its usual f gold anything is a small triumph for everyone con- lengthy in circulation by opening an ice-cream usual news reel. R. B. P., jr. | he touches. In the midst of all this cerned. program of short subjects and news j there is the married woman rppls R R P 1r who Alex Hyde's new show is a good I commits murder in order to be nearer show, due to the above-mentioned Miss ‘FORSAKING ALL OTHERS’ to him; and a "society” girl who loves Rio, whose shape is shapely and whose BETTE DAVIS, him and leaves him.

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