Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

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An authoritative guide to the newest talkie offerings THE CUCKOOS (RKO) F YOU want an evening of high-powered entertainment, don't miss this musical comedy. The story has to do with a couple of fortune tellers, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, who get mixed up with a widow worth $6,000,000, a terrifying Gypsy knife-thrower, an evil-eyed baron hunting trouble, a young aviator very much in love, and a pretty girl who has been forbidden to marry him. The action takes place along the Mexican border, where anything might happen — and does! This is one of the most excrutiatingly funny pictures produced to date. The music is catchy, and the technicolor very successful. Hugh Trevor and June Clyde furnish a satisfactory love interest, with Jobyna Rowland — who is six feet two — and Robert Woolsey — five feet four — bringing in the laughs. It's really Wheeler and Woolsey's show; but Dorothy Lee, Ivan Lebedeff, and Mitchell Lewis have their own big moments. You can't ifford to miss this one. It is one of Radio's very biggest pictures of the year and well earns, in entertainment value, all the time and money spent on it. TALKIIMG THE DIVORCEE (M-G-M) NOBODY is supposed to recognize this picture as an adaptation of the sensational anonymous novel, ExWife: but it's pretty much all there just the same. It's about a young couple who experiment with a little extra-marital love and land in the divorce courts in spite of their secret love for each other. Jerry (Norma Shearer), becomes a successful fashion artist, and the life of a very merry crowd of ex-wjves and their sweethearts. A man she nearly married 1 once, (Conrad Nagel), is wretched with the girl he wed from a sense of obligation; she having ruined her beauty in an automobile accident. Nagel persuades Helen Johnson to agree to divorce him so that he can marry Norma and take her to Japan. Successive events lead to a surprising but thoroughly satisfactory climax. • Again Norma Shearer scores in a sophisticated, ultra-modern picture that seems to be her special forte. Chester Morris, as the faithless but charming husband, is excellent, while Nagel and Helen Johnson handle their roles well. PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (Paramount) HERE'S another one of those spectacular Hollywood revues that include a dozen or more top-liners in clever vaudeville acts comprising humor, pathos, burlesque, and beauty. It is one of the most entertaining films of its type made to date, and one you ought not miss. Probably the best novelty is Origin of the Apache, with Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn Brent doing a sidesplitting slap-stick number in a very decorative bedroom. Little Mitzi Green's impersonations of Charles Mack and Chevalier are truly clever. Nancy Carroll leads a snappy chorus in a fast number called Dancing to Save Your Sole, with Abe Lyman and his band accompanying. Ruth Chatterton sings a soulful ballad. My Marine, reminiscent of My Man, while Clara Bow pops forth with a gay little sailor song. The final number, Sweeping the Clouds Away, is spectacularly beautiful. Anyone who enjoys high-class vaudeville presented by clever stars will get his money's worth at this picture. 56