Film Fun (1928 - 1942 (assorted issues))

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When they step forth to bat¬ tle with law and order their plans flash through with unerring pre¬ cision. When the Count (Edmund Lowe) does a job it stays done, and the bonds go to His Highness’ se¬ curity vault. One evening’s festivities resulted in the capture of a considerable quantity of bonds. A boy working in the bank was suspected, arrested, jailed. His sweetie swore she’d have him out. She hit the trail of the gun-toters. Lowe, the leader of them all, fell for her. She became his jane and he introduced her to the gang. They accepted her as a decoy — and then the shooting started. Mary is superb. Lowe is positively grand. The story gallops along like the Pony Express. There’s nary a hitch — not even at the altar. Bringing Up Father Whadya Hafta Bring That Up For? QEORGE McMANUS’ Jiggs is up to some new tricks. Ably im! personated by J. Farrell MacDonald, he’s in the movies accompanied by his better half, Maggie, the girl who put the row in Frau. Polly Moran plays Maggie; when Polly wants a cracker she always finds it handy in the form of a rolling pin. She just can’t leave poor Jiggs alone. When he takes his coat off at dinner, she shouts, “Hey, keep that coat on — ain’t you housebroken yet?” and she complains angrily to Ellen, their decorative daughter, “I tell him we need a change of air — and he buys | an electric fan!” Good or bad it goes on like that all the way through. You’re sure of a steady stream of laughter — not only from the titles, and the up¬ roarious if vulgar character work of Polly Moran and Marie Dressier, but also from the coo-coo cartoon situ¬ ations — that’s our story and we’ll slapstick to it. We won’t bother you with an ac¬ count of the incredible societycrazy antics of Maggie and of Fath¬ er's temporary cure of her yen-peck¬ ing. If you like the funny papers you’ll like this — and that’s all you need to 'know. Chicago After Midnight Gang Agley! H ERE is another of that endless tribe of celluloid hair raisers de¬ voted to the merry-merry masquer¬ ade. Cabarets and booze caches makes up the locale of this seven reel shiver. Cops and gunmen battle to the death at the drop of a bottle. Blackjacks flash aplenty, and we don’t mean chewing gum. Ralph Ince plays the wishy-washy hero who promises to do right by as trick a little petter as any Yale man could want. Her name is Jola Mendez and she’s the kind of a girl who doesn’t help a man to Mender own business. If you like to see the Howlywocd version of cabaret cut-ups, hi¬ jackers and Jills, bright light Berthas and Underworld Andies, then get a load of “Chicago at Midnight.” It’s one grand and glorious “hooch” dance. Mother Machree A Mither is as Good as a Mile F the people want tear-stories, says Fox films, Sob be it! And, al¬ though nowadays a picture can no longer be gotten for a song, a song can always be gotten for a picture. Faith and bejabbers if it isn’t a song that’s been squeezin’ tears from the eyes of millions of hard-boiled Amer¬ icans for these many years. There’s always a touch of sham in the shamrock — but it’s the kind you’re glad to take, particularly when it’s meted out to you by such masters of pathos as Belle Bennett and Victor McLaglen. A goodly number of us fans have been keep