Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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1 t THE NAUGHTY FLIRT (First National) ALICE WHITE always has insisted that no star is bigger i_ than her story, but the little blonde's fans will disagree with her after viewing this production. The role of Kay Elliott is ideally suited to Alice. Alice falls in love with Douglas Gilmore, whose plotting sister, Myrna Loy, seeks to refill the depleted family exchequer by marrying him off to Alice, daughter of a miUionaire attorney. But Paul Page, enters the tale somewhere on the golf course, and Alice throws her affections to him. Gilmore and his sister frame Page at a house party, but Alice learns the truth before it is, alas, too late. THE SEA WOLF (Fox) -and best — version of Rex Beach's famous reached the screen as an audible with Milton of the finest charaaerizations of his long THE thirdnovel has Sills doing one career. The Sea Wolf is a vivid, tale of a boy's regeneration against terrific odds, under the spurs of a girl's love and a man's contempt. Raymond Hackett, as the down-and-outer, gives a sterling performance, as does Jane Keith, who succeeds in making him see that life is worth while after all. Naturally, the youth wins the girl as death removes the menace — Sills, and the golden sun sinks into the west, DOUGH BOYS (M-G-M) A THEATRE-GOING public that has become bored by an over-supply of war films will take a new lease on life when they see this Buster Keaton starring vehicle. Buster, in the role of the rich and prominent utilities head, is shanghaied into the army, only to find that the lady of his dreams, played by Sally Eilers, has enlisted as an entertainer. They meet in the training camp and again in France, where Buster's hard-boiled top sergeant becomes his rival for Sally's hand. Buster unintentionally becomes a hero, wins Sally and returns to New York after the armistice in a blaze of glorj-. ANYBODY'S WOMAN (Paramount) A NARRATIVE of human emotions as sensational as its title is this Gouverneur Morris story that has been converted into a co-starring vehicle for Ruth Chatterton and Clive Brook. A well-bred and prominent attorney, played by Brook, awakens after a drunken party to find himself married to Miss Chatterton, a tawdry woman of doubtful morals and hopelessly beyond the pale of his social set. Miss Chatterton soars to the same high pinnacle she reached in Madame X, while Brook gives a sincere interpretation of the lawyer-husband. Paul Lukas is again excellent. 58 Up-to-the-minute talkie critiques to insure well-spent