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 ,.l THOROUGHLY enjoyable picture some In Paul Muni's conception of the leading role, NIGHT MUST FALL-Robert Montgomery times _i--l_ fails to receive its due from the critics. however, I felt not only the emotionalism of the as a psychopathic killer in a remote English They spill quotable adjectives, and hail an ,vestern world but even the s lurring, character countryside. Mighty long. 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. Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Alice Faye, is out getting close to the wonder of it. Perfection what I have in mind. The presence of Winchell, is the word. PERSONAL PROPERTY-Jean Harlow and who is to millions of American citizens either an It is a great picture. The abused word "epic" Robert Taylor. If that's enough to set blood excited voice on the air or a gospel-giving col regains its meaning when used in this connection. aboil, take it. Robert takes a bath in front of the umnist, roots the picture in authenticity. Whether A Star Is Born tells the fabulous story of a camera. Men will be disappointed; women will or not you approve of what he stands for, or girl's rise to stardom from a Midwestern farm, have to decide for themselves. what you think he stands for, in the picture he and the fall of her mentor, a male star who drinks. QUALITY STREET-Quaint and delicate love is allowed to be himself in word, gesture and Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe tale out of James Barrie, acted by Katharine action. The same attention to truthful portrayal Menjou lend credence to a run-of-the-mill plot; Hepburn in the manner to which she is accus comes out in the picture's Radio City sequences, and for the first time, Technicolor helps a picture tomed. All right if you like that sort of thing. both as realism and satire. instead of furnishing running interference against SWING HIGH, SWING LOW-New version The plot of the picture develops more suspense its own side. of Burlesque. High comedy, slightly dampened than all the psychopathic-killer pictures of the Maytime, an elaborate expansion of the old by trite theme of trumpet-player (Fred Mac 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 by 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. Wake Up And Live is a richer work. story. It has been hailed by press and pulpit as SEVENTH HEAVEN-Paris Lost Horizon fits my notion concerning Mr. a stimulant to marriage. Statistics failing, I can in Wartime; a street cleaner and the waif Capra, who is surely one of America's most dis only say that my investigations uncovered four he takes in off the street. James Stewart and Simone tinguished directors. I think he lost his own teen who admitted the "Yes, I Do" feeling to one Simon in the roles that made Gaynor-Farrell horizon when he exchanged it for James Hilton's who said : "It is a Hollywood monstrosity. It's famous. Can start tears in a susceptible pipe-dream of adventure, fantasy and wisdom. overdone, it's a hodge-podge." eye. To put an X on the precise spot where Capra He was talking about the picture, not the in THE SOLDIER A ID THE LADY-A message sank, it happened when the magnificent air ad stitution of marriage. to Garcia carried halfway across Russia by venture of the refugees from Baskul ended and A FAMILY AFFAIR-Lionel Barrymore as Michael Strogoff. A blood-and-thunder thriller, their spiritual education in Shangri-La began. an upright judge. Mildly exciting, with Mickey as exciting and improbable as a trip to the moon. When the long speeches began, it was a shock Rooney in moments of splendid adolescence. THE TOP OF THE TOW -Musical comedy to hear nothing more startling than the Golden CAFE METROPOLE-Tyrone Power and elephantiasis in glass and chromium on the Rule and the Grecian precept of moderation. Loretta Young chase each other in Paris. Light 102nd floor. 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 one funnier. talked about it. tender in Don Marquis's The Old Soak. A Beery You doubtless know enough about Pearl Buck's potboiler. WHEN LOVE IS YOU G-Small-town girl with voca story of Wang Lung, the Chinese peasant, his HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT-So was the l ambitions (Virginia Bruce) makes wife, O-Lan and the second wife, Lotus, not to plot. Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer and Leo Carillo good in big city. Also makes Kent Taylor. lot need further discussion of that struggle for land help. Good direction. new, but pleasant. and wealth. THE KI G AND THE CHORUS GIRL LA KERMESSE HEROIQUE-Superbly witty It is a picture with incidents so magnificently Fernand Gravel does more than Dick Powell can sex comedy of 17th Century Holland, rightly conceived, carried out and photographed that no to justify Blondell's ways to man. See title for called the best foreign picture of the year. 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. 26 .

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