Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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1 PALMY DAYS (United Artists) WATERLOO BRIDGE (Universal) I Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood and a bevy of beautiful blondes, brunettes and redheads make gold-standard entertainment for the fans who like comedy song cinemas. The fun is clean and there's plenty of it. Eddie plays the role of assistant to a fake spiritualistic medium. Through accident he supplants one of the villain's henchmen as efficiency expert in a musical comedy bakery. Throughout the action Cantor looks forward to marrying the boss's daughter, but in the end, doesn't. A sensitive, sad story of a war-wracked youth and a lady-of-the-evening offers great opportunities to Kent Douglass and Mae Clarke, who play the leading roles. An air-raid meeting brings the couple together, and an air-raid parts them forever. Meantime the girl is tortured by the clean love of the kid soldier and tries desperately to disguise her true status. But she cannot hide from herself, and until the end has courage to refuse his offer of hand as well as heart. Had it not been for the expert direction of Richard Wallace, this one might have been a regular "shilling shocker," for one of the big moments concerns the murder of a bridegroom at the altar, and the suicide of the slayer. Lilyan Tashman is the near-bride of the sequence, and is cast as the much-divorced mother of ingenue Pegg}' Shannon. The killing of William Boyd and Lilyan's return to Irving Pichel paves the way for the young romance between Buddy Rogers and Miss Shannon. Warner Baxter begins where he left off in the memorable "In Old Arizona," and you'll surely welcome the return of that debonair border bandit, the 'Cisco Kid. Nor is the Kid alone. His friendly enemy, Sergeant Dunn, is right with him in the person of Edmund Lowe. These two provide enough kicks for several pictures, and wavering between them is Conchita Montenegro. Warner Baxter is superb in this continuation of the character he created in the earlier film. The sensational James Cagney equals his earlier triumphs as a hotel bell-hop who turns racketeer. The girl in the case is Joan Blondell who leaves James outside the law to marry within it. The rest of the story tells how the respectable husband gets in a jam, with Cagney turning here* to save him for Joan's sake. The tag indicates that maybe Jimmie and Joan will get together again some time in the future. Cagney is all the aces, with Miles. Blondell and Polly Walters as Queens. They're together again — Jack Holt and Ralph Graves, and while the story may be the old hokum-pokum it's got more thrills than a three-ring circus. And laughs come tumbling one over the other like a lot of acrobats. Following his usual irrepressible character, Ralph plans to swipe a necklace just to stir up some excitement. Of course, a real crook beats him to it — and the rest of the exciting action follows the two heroes in a thief chase through murder, haunted houses and all sorts of things. THE 'CISCO KID (Fox) A DANGEROUS AFFAIR (Columbia) 58