Film Fun (1928 - 1942 (assorted issues))

training camp. There is a card game in which the sharp edge of a razor plays no inconsequential part. Then the troop moves to France. There, amid the frogs and fighters, they are taken into camp by a female Ger¬ man spy who plays black-face puppy love with the two Aframericans. It’s a good show, suckers, with enough shady situations to pull it into the colored movie class. See it! Feel My Pulse Do You Know Your Beets? LJERE’S Bebe Daniels as a germ1 1 fighting hypochondriac with simply marvelous ill-power. That girl would have herself innoculated against laughing, for she’s been work¬ ing on the “ail” road ever since her antiseptic uncle started her health bent for heaven. Bebe arrives at her own secluded sanitarium where, unbeknownst to her, William Powell, head of a boot¬ leg gang, has been making applejack to keep the doctors away. However, the girlie’s looks and bankroll en¬ courage him to force his hard-boiled gazabos into wheel chairs and to dress himself as the head doctor. An attack by hi-jackers upsets the works and first thing we know the poor little sick girl is keeping ’em at bay rum by means of kegs rolled down the stairs — and that babe sure knows how to stick to her hittin’I Not to be taken seriously — in fact, you are assured a tummy laugh when the drunk sings “Sweet Adeline” to Bebe, viz: “In all my dreams your bare bace feams . . .” Laugh, crowd, laugh! The Secret Hour But Time Will Tell pUT censors in the movies and you * take out sense. They Knew What They Wanted won the Pulitzer prize as a play. As a movie — The Secret Hour — it doesn’t run any such danger. But it’s not as bad as the profes¬ sional critics may tell you it is. In fact, it’s fairly heart twisting and, what’s more, it made us quite enthu¬ siastic about Pola Negri as the waitress who waits day in, day out for the tinkle of a wedding bell. When the proposal comes by mail she de¬ cides that now it can be tolled and proceeds to give up her job for the Great Adventure. Complications set in when she se¬ cretly marries the hired man instead of the old Italian fruit-grower who had sent her the love letter. Which makes it impossible for Pola to cast the “emote” out of her eye! Well, the picture is engrossing des¬ pite the doubtfulness of the events — so we’ll sign off with the reminder that there are some of us critics left, who, when we look for the most im¬ portant element in a film, don’t go immediately to plot. Soft Living Ease a Jolly Good Fellow 'T'HE merry Moll in “Soft Living” 1 who decides to marry mazuma and then divorce it is none other than Miss Madge Bellamy. She makes up her mind to hit the alimony racket for all that’s in it, and then get out with a roll that will keep her in black silk undies and sunken bath tubs for the rest of her unnatural life. Brother John Mack Brown is the lad who lets himself in for a peck of grief by encouraging the three-alarm riot who is Miss Madge. For the benefit of the knot-hole fraternity we hereby state that the girl friend takes a bath where all can see plenty. In fact, she does more than that. She takes two baths; and brothers, when Missy Madge of the shapely gambs splashes water on two separate occasions in one picture it’s time to take the opery glasses out of camphor. That, or sell the farm and start west. While the tubbings do not con¬ tribute much to the progress of art they do help while away the evening. Some people adore Madge in a tub; others get a severe case of Bellamy ache. As for your dutiful and ob¬ servant servant, we join you in look¬ ing forward to our favorite’s next picture when she will take three baths. The Garden of Eden The Serpent Question 'T'HIS is a matter of import — a play which was a big success on the continent but which, in the lit¬ tle burg of N. Y., flopped terribly — somewhat as we do for Corinne Griffith each time we see her. We should like to divide an apple with her any day, but unfortunately, in our Garden of Eden, there ain’t gon¬ na be no Corinne. It deals with a little cabaret sin¬ ger’s debut, her falsetto voice and friends, a bit of cafe love that doesn’t appeal to her, and an unex¬ pected tour to Monte Carlo with The Game far Daring Ibung Men Are you a red-blooded, . daring he-man? Do you crave adventure, popularity, admiration, and the applause of great crowds? Then why not get into the Aviation In¬ dustry— the greatest ad¬ venture since time began — the greatest thrill ever offered to man? Think what Aviation offers you. The praLe and plaudits of the multitude. And a chance to get in on the ground floor where rewards may be unlimited! Aviation Is growing bo Bwiftly that one can hardly keep track of all the astonishing new developments. Air-mail routes have just been extended to form a vast aerial network over the entire U. S. 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