T D E C U R R E NT C I N E M A

T D E C u R R E NT C I N E M A

By Archer Wins ten

FALL-Robert Montgomery ,.l THOROUGHLY enjoyable picture some In Paul Muni's conception of the leading role, NIGHT MUST in a remote English _i--l_ times fails to receive its due from the critics. however, I felt not only the emotionalism of the as a psychopathic killer g. They spill quotable adjectives, and hail an ,vestern world but even the s lurring, character countryside. Mighty lon other smash-hit at the ABC-Radio-Palace theatre, istic accents of New Yorkese. It is the only time LOVE FROM A STRANGER-Coldblooded but ( especially if it is a musical comedy) they Muni has been disappointing in a long career killers loose in England. ot as exciting as hoped. forego profounder mulling. A musical comedy is touching the opposite poles of gangster and Louis THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT-Bret expected to be little more than fanciful dessert. Pasteur. As to the performance of Luise Rainer Harte's California through rose-colored glasses. Wake Up And Live, the comedy with music, as O-Lan, this could be described endlessly with Dull and slow. Faye, is out getting close to the wonder of it. Perfection Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Alice PERSONAL PROPERTY-Jean Harlow and of Winchell, is the word. what I have in mind. The presence Robert Taylor. If that's enough to set blood either an It is a great picture. The abused word "epic" who is to millions of American citizens aboil, take it. Robert takes a bath in front of the -giving col regains its meaning when used in this connection. excited voice on the air or a gospel camera. Men will be disappointed; women will Whether A Star Is Born tells the fabulous story of a umnist, roots the picture in authenticity. have to decide for themselves. or not you approve of what he stands for, or girl's rise to stardom from a Midwestern farm, QUALITY STREET-Quaint and delicate love what you think he stands for, in the picture he and the fall of her mentor, a male star who drinks. tale out of James Barrie, acted by Katharine is allowed to be himself in word, gesture and Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe Hepburn in the manner to which she is accus action. The same attention to truthful portrayal Menjou lend credence to a run-of-the-mill plot; tomed. All right if you like that sort of thing. comes out in the picture's Radio City sequences, and for the first time, Technicolor helps a picture version both as realism and satire. instead of furnishing running interference against SWING HIGH, SWING LOW-New dampened The plot of the picture develops more suspense its own side. of Burlesque. High comedy, slightly (Fred Mac than all the psychopathic-killer pictures of the Maytime, an elaborate expansion of the old by trite theme of trumpet-player by past year, which is faint praise, but not so in operetta, includes also a brand-new opera con Murray) going to the dogs and being reborn tended. The direction by Sidney Lanfield is ex structed out of Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, the loyal love of his wife (Carole Lombard). emplary. Previously he had proven himself a the best recording of the Jeanette MacDonald STEP LIVELY, JEEVES-Wodehouse's Jeeves master in Sing, Baby, Sing and One In A Million. and Ielson Eddy voices to date, and a bitter-sweet as a tool of two "con" men. Light but nice. has been hailed by press and pulpit as Wake Up And Live is a richer work. story. It SEVENTH HEAVEN-Paris in Wartime; a to marriage. Statistics failing, I can Lost Horizon fits my notion concerning Mr. a stimulant street cleaner and the waif he takes in off the investigations uncovered four Capra, who is surely one of America's most dis only say that my street. James Stewart and Simone Simon in the the "Yes, I Do" feeling to one tinguished directors. I think he lost his own teen who admitted roles that made Gaynor-Farrell famous. Can start monstrosity. It's horizon when he exchanged it for James Hilton's who said : "It is a Hollywood tears in a susceptible eye. of adventure, fantasy and wisdom. overdone, it's a hodge-podge." pipe-dream THE SOLDIER A ID THE LADY-A message X on the precise spot where Capra He was talking about the picture, not the in To put an to Garcia carried halfway across Russia by when the magnificent air ad stitution of marriage. sank, it happened Michael Strogoff. A blood-and-thunder thriller, of the refugees from Baskul ended and A FAMILY AFFAIR-Lionel Barrymore as venture as exciting and improbable as a trip to the moon. their spiritual education in Shangri-La began. an upright judge. Mildly exciting, with Mickey THE TOP OF THE TOW -Musical comedy When the long speeches began, it was a shock Rooney in moments of splendid adolescence. elephantiasis in glass and chromium on the to hear nothing more startling than the Golden CAFE METROPOLE-Tyrone Power and 102nd floor. Rule and the Grecian precept of moderation. Loretta Young chase each other in Paris. Light Despite the severity of this criticism, the pic enough to amuse, if you're light enough to be THU IDER I THE CITY-Edward G. Robin ture is incredibly beautiful in the mountain and amused. son as an American super-salesman on English flying sequences, and has the best airplane crack THE CRIME NOBODY SAW-Except your terrain. Weak. up ever photographed. For those to whom the reviewer, who didn't care one way or the other. WAIKIKI WED DI G-Pineapple promotion message seems real-and I know there are such ' ELEPHANT BOY-Biggest elephant ever, in a in Hawaii, as conceived by the melodious Bing the picture cannot fail to be glorious. Korda-Flaherty version of Kipling's Toomai of Crosby. The tropic air proves too strong for The Good Earth also demands attention. It the Elephants. Has charm. Martha Raye, who becomes louder but not has been hiding behind special prices while every GOOD OLD SOAK-Wallace Beery, tight but funnier. talked about it. tender in Don Marquis's The Old Soak. A Beery one WHEN LOVE IS YOU G-Small-town girl about Pearl Buck's potboiler. You doubtless know enough with vocal ambitions (Virginia Bruce) makes Lung, the Chinese peasant, his HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT-So was the story of Wang good in big city. Also makes Kent Taylor. lot and the second wife, Lotus, not to plot. Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer and Leo Carillo wife, O-Lan new, but pleasant. need further discussion of that struggle for land help. Good direction. HEROIQUE-Superbly witty and wealth. THE KI G AND THE CHORUS GIRL LA KERMESSE sex comedy of 17th Century Holland, rightly It is a picture with incidents so magnificently Fernand Gravel does more than Dick Powell can called the best foreign picture of the year. conceived, carried out and photographed that no to justify Blondell's ways to man. See title for criticism of other flaws can dim their lustre. plot. See picture to brush up on unemployed kings. THE ETER AL MASK-A Swiss picture The overpowering realism of the storm in harvest, MARKED WOMA -Recommended for con which ventures where none have gone successfully the famine of a people, the revolution of 1911 vention delegates. Lays bare the facts of clip before-into the mind of a doctor temporarily and the plague of locusts has never been equalled joints, their hostesses and racketeer owners. insane. An extraordinary experience, well worth in motion picture art. Bette Davis in high gear. your time.