Jr- AMUSEMENTS. 'Typhoon’ a Joking Satire Crime Does After All Trans-Lux Shows v Pay Namsos in Flames Hie newt reels are not pretty this By, Or On, Paramount In 'I Was an Adventuress *1 week. They are Just dramatic and Earle’s Picture more than a little frightening. The GLORIA IRAK with Lamour Zorina and new Trans-Lux program has a full Dorothy Two Pleasant Thieves "IF I HAD NT WAT" Is a Jibe at Its complement of them, Movietone Jungle Type; In New Picture at the ourui nan • n bxubb Capitol; and Paramount especially contribut- * Skelton, Is Better ing much to our' enlightenment and C*/y.v Feeling Better, Giovanni Is Stage Star •MAKCH of TIME* nothing to our peace of mind. • By JAY CABMODY. By HARRY Mae ARTHUR. Prom Norway come terrifying shots “THE WEST At one point in the course of “Typhoon,” sarong clad Dorothy Lamour Some one is going to have to speak rather to the WALL’* sharply Hays office, of the flight of Norwegians from Is taking a siesta. Seated nearby in the snug jungle penthouse are Robert or maybe rap it briskly across the knuckles. Before this which Can Nazi Smash Maginot Lin*? laxity Oslo, the evacuation of Namsos, its Preston and Lynn Overman, the former being berated for not seems to have descended upon the guardians of our morals we could feel Can Allies Pierce West Wall? returning flaming destruction and finally the !| her love. complacent in the assurance that no motion would to Today's Battle Front described picture attempt leveled, charred chaos that once “Why, she’s only a baby.” protests Preston. break down the rather generally held belief that crime does not by Maj. George Fielding Eliot pay. was a quiet town, where people "I never saw anything like that in a Overman. But here in “I Was an Adventuress,” the new at Loew’s nursery,” says photoplay Capl- lived and died, once even of natural • The Earle’s audience fairly laughs its head off at that w>i, we nna ui»v crime not. only aoes point, fpr causes. There is the prelude to A4/..WALT DISNEY'S CARTOON neuuer am it ever see anytning :ikb r----—. pay—if oot tomwell at times, It still have pick our thail Peter the horror of the Western Pront, THE BILL POSTERS" that in a nursery. Is a living—burthat it also seems to pockets tered. whose life Lorre’s Polo it would be Dr. too—French tanks and guns mass- Farcical inflections of this kind Paramount, is not be rather fun. (unless Starting Friday cloistered, does know). Giovanni, who is picking in ing in preparation for action, Bel- are sufficiently common in the Three engaging people (Zorina, pockets Sweet Little Alice Blue which must the show). Polo is gians leaving wives, loved ones, ’My Cowtf course of Paramount’s technicolor “Typhoon,” be rated Erich von Stroheim and Peter Capitol’s stage as such an homes in Paris to throw a fairly good joke if not by, then Lorre) are involved in this engaging kleptomaniac themselves ANNA NEAGLE spectacle, in which Miss Lamour triviality, in the face on, Paramount is a at Miss when he is sadly he of the Nazi onslaught. RAY MILLARD plays a kind of co-ed Tarzan, to jibe leisurely wandering from one gay admitting Lamour’s traditional guesses he must be a And lest you still be thinking the convince one that in form-fitting spot on the continent to another psychopathic the studio this Atlantic Ocean a in 'TRENT sarong, at the Tartan with case and nothing can be done about moat making our one is the whole of pictures (remember gayety, Europe?), earn* kidding family their him. castle unassailable, there is Presi- ★ ANNA NEAGLE wOl South Sea island Aims. superhuman animals and ing their daily bread by the slickest magic (Any This all dent Roosevelt’s to Con- treetop houses, and suspiciously ir- confidence game ever. In the end is, in all, rather a message in PERSON one who does not know what kind gress. On our appear reverent toward such elemental wed to the pedestrian comedy, Director Gregory defense front the of such a is Zorina winds up richest magic picture supposed Ratoff told it to Army tests new automatic (Friday. May 34th only) classics as "Hurricane” and some young man in all France (Richard apparently having rifles, to exercise may call his life clois- not and the other colossal H’wood spectacles. It Qreene) and the other two thieves wglk, run. But its unreforming Curtiss-Wright people test thieves do make a new pursuit plane, which has conspicuous touches of all these. are off on a boat to start their lives it amusing. And looks it is almost like a tricky Job and Moreover, each one is enchanced by anew—in the same old business. enough just to look at would look Zorina’s sweet indeed if it could be THEATER PARKING the presence of Dotty, the Dusky, in Retribution, thou art fled to the image on the screen, with- counted out asking much more of the film. in none too mournful numbers. such a state of jungle naivete that hills. 6 P.M. TO Her of Shprt subjects for her reaction to love’s first kiss is Do not, please, think this a com- presence, course, calls for resting up be- a ballet number, for such tween soberer actualities 12 P.M. that “it isn’t like kissing daddy.” plaint. The presence of these two dancing pictured grace as Zorina’s never was meant are "Pleasurebound in If that doesn’t kill you, you are sincere, conscientious and capable Canada,” to be hidden under a bushel of "Not So Dumb," the new "Screen CAPITAL GARAGE a pretty sturdy specimen. And, if larcenists and their charming ac- jo*e.BRouin k drawing room and boudoir Snapshots” and "Home on the 1320 N. Y. Av»„ Bet. 13th & 14th Paramount didn’t have its tongue complice, who seems to have no re- repartee. The ballet is a version of Tschaikow- Range,” the color cartoon. H. TAKE THAT, YOU PESKY VARMINTS—Wallace accom- at all so as her M. HLin..Y?Va..Swn in its cheek, well eat the excellent Beery, grets long husband * sky’s “Swan Lake,” which must have ‘_ typhoon and fire sequences which panied by a friend, blazes away at the redskins or whoever is loves her in spite of her past, really " emerged as much a surprise to Zorina Revaet make the dramatic as him, in this scene from “20-Mule Team Technical makes for considerable joie de vlvre photography harassing as it would be to Petipa, its chore- Francis and Iwlct Nightly—Inel. Sob well as handsome. in “I Was an Adventuress." One Jerry Grey in a novelty vn rni/r® very experts please be advised that he is aiming with the left eye in 1894. in (Continental never would want Mr. Von Stroheim ographer Confused by the which Miss Francis demonstrates Some of the gaily incredible because he has lost the use the of right one, cinematically be camera and diffused by a smoke some amazing muscular and elements which have gone into to goody-goody, or even anything control, For the of this on his aim you will have to see screen someone saw fit to cast before the Rockets in three include: speaking. effect remotely resembling law-abiding. varied numbers. “Typhoon” it, this will make no film Their the picture, which will be at Loew’s Capitol starting Friday. And there is no one we would rather probably best is a mirror effect in which First, Miss Lamous as a lovely fans of DINNER $1.601 balletomanes or balletomanes not one of them massed a cue at er I waif, who has lived since childhood SUPPER I of film fans, Zorina has a 1*11 though yesterday’s matinee, the clever girls. Connecticut An. 1 on an otherwise uninhabited Pacific few Re». Phone N At. «141 airy moments. Songs are the contribution of | island. Her only companion is a Gloria Blake, a lass with a whom he * * * * warm voice chimpanzee apparently Concert Ends Buck Rides Screen which Benny seems to go all the way from has taugh to understand English in The revue on the “Spring Swing” contralto to Dean return for his devotion and protec- soprano. Murphy Capitol stage looks like nothing has is this week’s impersonator of tion. Making it the more remark- famous Whittall as He Does the Air to people, at his best able that she has survived is the Just happened vaudeville *t all and impersonating Charlie it is McCarthy. You're sure to And the die fact that the island yearly is swept right here with us. Everyone end style suited to need your by a typhoon which brings with it Involved in this is from in our complete stock. And His New Picture at the talented, Phone for Free a wall of water 99 feet or Series Palace Delivery! high, one Today the deft-fingered Giovanni down tc foot AMUSEMENTS. below the floor of the tree the last Rhythm Rocket on the right, ■■■■■■nMHnRMMMMpMgl ALICE EVERSMAN. Benefits penthouse (with elevator) in which By Greatly by Keeping reading from left to right. One the oddly assorted pair live. The first of the two concerts Its Cast in Radio Groove might go so far as to say there is Second, Mr. Preston as the young which will close the winter series never a dull moment. Giovanni’s ne’er-do-well, whose torso has sur- are the most even of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall The virtually universal notion that Jack Benny pictures would be doings novel, the vived astonishingly well a tre- he Foundation at the Library of Con- much funnier if they were more like his radio shows finally got as far in people calls from the audience mendous wash of and alcohol, who this world as Jack and Paramount.