Variety (Sep 1930)

uiTednesday, September a< 1930 FILM REVIEWS VARIETY 41 MONTE CARLO (Coptlnv^d froiu page. 19) •ole that hurts. iVs thait sort of a ■tory> Gooitaon. A count to meet an unknown countess xnaiieuTers to gat her hair dresser's joh, which he does. Then he wins, he says/ 200,000 francs to take, her out of Monte Carlo hock. About that time, as they both see "Monsieur Beaucalre" jn different boxes at the theatre, she Murmlses be Isn't a hair dresser. ) It heeded 90 minutes and over 8,- 000 feet of film to unravel that. The customary "charm" thing Isn't sufflclent to stand It off. A considerable aid In a small role Is Zazu J^ltts, as the countess' maid 'Who ha^ gohd strdhg: for the hair dressing guy herself.. As the maid sees her .mlstresa falling, sh^. de- notes by grimaces the breaks are •against hen . Quite funny. . .Claude AlllBter 'doe^: the Oenhan .Prince Otto von 6elb«D]feln>> 2d lead, with an Ehgllfth • ftocent- to' the' foppish British maiiher. ' Probably a short- age- of -Gei^Mi actors .in. Holly- wood, tltfOUg^ Jannlngd leaving. Paramount did the picture's pre mlere a Uttid differently, which may .Inive bet^ii a tip off. - Invltatlonii for -th6 $6 'top opening and "strictly for mal" on the inside 6t. the tUdCd ticket, printed in French and Eng- lish. Might have been more iin'pre's-^ \ iBlve If the "strictly formal'* Injunc- tion bad been obeyed. About 40% In-tux aftd the remainder go-as- imu-please. Simo. Ot^t^ite TH5 LAW "Unlvenal VrodttcUbn imd ' releaw; weted by Tbd"Bn>wnliur. ivho-tilm aharefl .«f«dlt for the story wltb Farret FOrt.'.Xary MOlan featured. At-QloM - lOeek Aug. ^. Rttinlng'-tttpfl .70 mlhates.. , . - . . Connie .«.^V.. .HarV Nolan -Cobra .......^.4....J.Edward Q. Robinson iiHg«tm ^...Owen Ifoore Ja|(e i.,^ .Edwin sturiglB Hainpy ....,.« ..«• Jobri George The Kid-- ^ Celmar Watson Police.CiUef Dewltt Jennings FoHce Captal>i ..........Rocfcciure Fellows No excuse for this, tt's. one of the worst exainples at cjaptrftp - since «ound camie in. Kot a thread oZ con- tinuity. . ^hO' thing Tahtjj . on, an on-the-6uff 49'crlpt; playera bbvioiisly as bewUfleried as the! director. He . Tvnd tur.i;ber -editing, "Outplde the liaw" has . only its title and'< Mary . >r«lan whb.glveis the iHwrest'l>er- (o^ance 6i her career'through 4[i6 tault.of li'et'i'bwn.. A.dud ior'«very theatre except' those with sloppy policlea 'which ; book pnly' wlth tun' ■ nlng-tlme^in njlnd.: " . x V . ; r ^ Multitudinous close-ups. of ■ in- animate and insigniflcant items, such. 'OS- 8Uoieis,\.penis,-.etc. Almost every one Is so . slappeu In as to linpr^' as beine^ the Introductory to anofbidRj.<^;6e(iUence.'' Sequences jare as iiinirel{ned,4lrreleVilnt and riu aieroijtr aa the. close-ups, ' . The acting; i!jEMi b0 "summed up. as 90% pttlfui: .Little l>elmar .Watson as thd^. kld son of a copper Is the only natural perfson. . It isii't the fault -of the players ' ^e eang leader part of - Edward Robinson and the' vli^tuous female . crook role by Mies Nolan,'who all the time is se.cretly yeanling for a babe, are' absurd. The crazy-Qullt theme and the anemic. direction permit-the players'to'run wild; As the result Robinson, Mlss Nolan, and Owen Moore work the angle of UHk' ing out of the comer of the mouth ^ith such consistency and ^ch ex- / aggerated gusto as- to provoke tn( . ioenslbllltles and . patience of the most easygoing fan_i. Any kind of filler was used to . drag out what shaped up. as a single idea into feature length. Yards of film deal repetltously with stupid conversation between Moore and Kolan in a\flat. The hedge podge, comes to an abrupt ending in close-ups of hands and gavels of what is, dtalogigd as an abbreviated .court scene, with the couple being let oft easily. Just a year and a half at "hard ItCbor." • I / ' Walv- LETS GONAtlVE (With Songs) Paramount: production and release. Jack 'Onie and Jeanette MacJDonald co-featured. sircGted by liCo-HcCarey. .Story by George aarlon, Jr., 9^ Percy Heatb, with-music bjn Richard A. Whiting and Mr. Marion's ^Sn*^ David Bennett's dances. Victor . ^'Uiner, cameibman. At Paramount, New £ork. week Aug. 20, Running time, 76 ;aDlnntes. yoltaire UcOlnnIs Jack Oakle Joan Wood Jeanette MacDonald Skeets Gallagher •SS.\'.y J*^*"***" James Hall Been Pistol William Austin instance Cook Kay Francis Chief Officer Williams David Newell Wallace Wendell Charles Sellon Creditor's Man Eugene Pallette gag man or men who hoked this one up deserve the credit. As a comedy, for any audience, and coming so near the start of the new seaBon, it shouldn't encounter draw- Dacks for the entire way. For laughs Jt 3 going to rate very high. This IS also a musical with dances here and there. "Let's Go Native." getting Its title ♦I*"" ^ In a South Sea episode *?J^ard the finish, is a comedy of Slapstick errors. The story around iL'^j"*®^ the whole bakery for lowdown hokum plot building, but wie gags cover all such deficiencies. J'fl^glng starts early in a house wr2!?F scene, more of a house '^recking Idea, used to a lesser ex- tent before by pantomimlsts in vaudeville. But here it is well done in its .very rough way. The bust- ing takes in everything from a baby grand to a sports roadster. Next series, of gagging takes place shortly after on an Argentine-hound boat. The point that sauarea the story Is that nothing in the picture is In- tended seriously, excepting probably the song plugging. After every page in the oTd hoke catalog has seemingly been ploughed through, that's not all. The prin- cipals then, shipwrecked, land oU the island) the only Inhabitants of which are a. bunch of beautiful hula gals and a hoofer from Brooklyn, who, besides appointing himself king of the isle, has Instructed all the lady natives in the art of talk- ing, Brooklynese. .The island goes undet the sea after an earthquake, but the cast had made a comedy depc^ute just, in time. Some of the settings for the quake scisnes, excellent, and'some not good, but t<>taled pretty even. Jeanette 'MacDonald; learning moi'e tivery time she'steps before a camera, has the co-16ad with Jack Oakle, .and-thie two take.the picture. No isparlhgyby Paramount en sup- port, with /eyen lOiy.; Francis in a not so large''role,'^ but riither, nois- east Skeets Gallagherr'aa th.er is-' land .ldng,«-wasn't- arbund'enough to. get iQ -his. lick wiiH',.the siapstl.c1|f^. Oaklis had a monopoly on it most'o£ the time, Wllllani'.''Austin, agalii -'at johnny, boy^ seml-stralghting for him. Until the wreckirig stuff was over it Ipoked as though. Eugene Pallette were .duel ie; take niost ;of • the .^falls. He did tliepi nlc6ly.- James Hall' .looked^ talked and sang okay With Miss MacDonaitd. ' . Eiieemble dances shoved in some- ^i^hat'awkwardly several times, but all .of it..4>art of the picture'^- fcen-: eral attitude of gags for gags' sake. One of the ballet shots tricked up by'an odd jo]t> of splicing or 4oub1e exposure. Green tinted film gave the'.illusion^ et soft colors. , par- alindunt theatre's screen was wid- ened'for this one shot,.- . . Songs' are *'Wy Mad Moment," "It Seems to" Be Spring," "'liet's Ge Native,", and 'Tve Got a Ten for You." More thought in them' by George Marlon, than be lent te the story, for. some of the lyrics are peaches. Accent en the words In most;of: the dellY^y'so Pick 'Wbit lug's tunes frequently were smoth ered. . 'Oskie^ HalV and'^Mlsses. Mac- DODiad and iFrahclft did the l^lnjgtng. -Ill Ske<ifa Gallagher's'sTiOrt'spell. He has the line of «t^e 1>lcture>'> It was ;one o<;, the,.Yjli*in isiandjsi. be- fore he gbt there^jsays' Skeets; ■.>.. •" , " •'■ Bifie. .. fv—— ■— TQPSFEEP . First ;Natlolift|> IHi^tlOn and i«1|e«iii»L Baaed oin rauslcaV- vt -same name by Bert -Kahnar, Gay Bolton and Harry. Ruby. Adaptation tor soreep^by Humphrey Pear- son-laifd ^wwiM«<Wly. Directed.;^, Mervyn IieRoy." ' Dadceto directed by I-arry. CeballoB. Musical direction by Brno Rapeei Photography by Bid Hlckox.. Art director, Ariton, Gr<}ti ;At, >Stra)>d, New .York, yrffHj: Aug. 29, Running time. It mInUtes, ' Elmer Peters Joe B. jBrbwn Virginia RoUtns .Bemlce Claire Gerald Brooks «.Jaok Whiting Tad Jordan Frank McHugh Babs .Green ; Laura I«e Daisy Rita -Flynn Spencer Colgate Edmund Breese The Sheriff Wade Boteler Vincent Colgate , Cyril Ring J, W. Rollins Edwin Maxwell IppB ..Billy Bletcher A laugh picture of moderate en'; tertainmentappeal; ' Songs and dances played : d<>wn.- This can be sold as a comedy, with some trim mings rather than as a musical, Three song numbers and. little dancing, but plenty of gags, some rather spicy.. Although the market is against musicals, this one has every right to sell well and do busi- ness if not unwisely exploited as a musical. To some the picture, gagged up plenty "and with Joe B: Brown's comedy, work carrying a punch, will seem better than the musical it came from. S.till It does not rat^ above average f or first-run pro- -igtSmStB^^ ' ! :''^ Possibility of running up against censors in somq spates through the presence oit some of the warmest gags ever attempted in pictures may stand in the way of its jippeal. JThose half idozen gags are part and parcel-of the kick delivered. They help sell the production and Brown 'When it is considered what a flimsy. Innocuous plot "Top Speed" had as a musical, the talker ver slon can be regarded in no other light than as a pretty decent job from the director down. Casting fine, with Brown perfect as the blustering broker's clerk, who with his pal (Jack Whiting) put on the ritz as millionaires at a swanky summer club. Big-mouth Brown and what he has done with his part makes up a large percentage of the entertain ment That bovine-like yawn he lets out every now and then as things go wrong gets the laughs through,a lot of repetition. Biggest and best sequence, photo- graphically and otherwise, with more comedy here than anywhere else. Is the big boat race when Whjtlng refuses to throw the con- test through love for the rich gal. Brown and a pal (Frank McHugh) set out in a boat with one stewed and the other Irresponsible. What that boat does all around the lagoon, jiHnplng over rock.% docks, etc., as it runs wild makes for slapstick that's a near riot. The. legit boat races provide a thrill, with credit due director and cameramen for the class shots ob- tained. Next to Brown, McHugh ladles out the most laughs. He does a drunk and squeezes out all the com- edy anyone could. Two girls who fall for the broker's clerks are Bernice Claire and Laura. Lee, former - straight- ingenue role, other in comedy. Both in song numbers, paired with the boys as they are in the love Interest. Brown and Miss Lee top one of the three numbers allowed in with an eccen- tric dance, backed by an ensemble. Ensemble appears only once. In the; New Vork first-run show- ing the screen is widened through the magnifying process for boat race sequence only. Char. SPURS Dlrec- Harry Universal production and release, tion aAd "Story by' Reaves Elason. Neuman, photographer^ Featuring Hoot Gibson, with Helen Wright, Bob Homails and. Philo McCuUough. At Tlvoll. New York, one day, Sept. I, halt double feature. Running time, M minutes. Action western, which the kids will go'for. No time wasted in get- ting started. Begins at a. fast clip and keeps up the pace. As cow pic- tures go, this satifles, having plenty '«f shooting, horse .riding and some trick riding during a rOdeo. . ■ Story is bld-tstuffi trlmined up in modern maiiner,:: ^Villains are:in a etecret deii,^ where- .buttons'-are pressed and cords piitiled .to gain en- trance< Guarded by a high-power^ machine gum ^ Gibson find's tliQ 'se- cre% enirance.'.vahd the vtlltains' at-^- tempt to put liim out of the Way.; : |/G^Bon plays a nonchalant - herb and makes himself liked. -Coirking rider. Kids will admive the way'he handles a.horse.; Trick riding dtirr Ing the rodeo; when .he is on- a brbnk, appears to have someon^'^Iee dbihg the riding. Nobody /will ask questions about that. ,•; - : Miss Wright, the heroine, has as much to do as the -usual cowgirl heroines; A small kid gav^ oke heart. Interest support, while a familiar short chap haiadled ...tbe- comedy. .;Outdoor photography good, with no faking- of scenes ap^rent. L'EnigmatiqiK^.. Mbiisieur:;Parketf (All. .Diajiii):};^^^ Paramount '■ ■ iiTo}^wAi^''H^^v^^X Melodies des Herzens ("Melody of the Heart") (GERMAN MADE) (Talker) Erich PomVier proauctlon. Ufa release. Directed by Hanns Schwarz. Starring Dlta Parlo and* Willy Fritsch. Story by Hans Ssehely, Music by Werner R: Hey- mann. Photographer, Guenther R4ttau Sound cameraman, Frits Thiery. Instru- mental m'Uslc by Gypsy BAnd-Balogh Jansci and Ufatoiie Orchestra., Klangaim re- corded. 'Bl-Ungaal American- premiere at two theatres. German- yerstonr presented at 6th Street theatre,-. New York, - week Aug. SOi Running time. 00 minutes. Julia Balog. .Pita Parlo Janos Garas. ..1 Willy FrIUch Father Kovacs...-. Janos Koe0nendy Mother Garas , ..Mnrosa Simon Father JCovacs JuUeka D.-Ugetl Mctber Kovacs. ^4 JufiBha'D. Ugeti. Anna Kovacs. .'.. AnnI Mevea Miss Czlbulka .....Ilka Gruentnig The Vagabond Queen (ENGUISH MADE) (Synchronized). (No dialog) * London, Aug. 21. British Intemntlonal production and re- lease. Starring Betty Balfour, with Glen Byam Shnw, Ernest Theslger, Ralph Leslie in cast. Directed by O. M, Bolvary. Syn- chronized score by RCA Photophone. Pho- togAphed by Charles Rosher. Length. 8,000 feet. Running tlnte, 100 minutes approz. Censor's- Certlflcate "A." Reviewed at Re- g«l cinema, London, Aug. 10. Adolphe Menlou'Sj<ln)tsFiaDtdi:i.^Iker^^^ Bloq of "The llykterlousij: Mr. Farkes.' Clau^ptte Colbert featured. 'In cast: Emile Chautard.. Adrienne d' Ambrlcourt. Sandra Ravel,. Annand Kalltz. Jacques Jou Jer- vlUe, Andre Cheron... Frank CKNellK At Gfitb.street Playhouse week Aug. 30, Riin nintf .tlniei./70-minutes. A. male and femt^e Raffles in the same'Picture are Claudette Colbert and Adolphe Meiijou, in the.latter's first French dialog film, ' While the theme is comparatively shopworn and Shallow, the performance lis finished and the mountings attrac- tive. Picture should gross well with French audiences. The theme moves with drawing room precision and chatter. There is one bit of red-blooded actiop, fist fight and wrestling match between Malatrotr, mastep criminal^ aiid Courtenay Parkes, mysterious Eng- llijhman. . Menjdu Is the Frenchlest appear- ing person in the cast and the English appelkitlon' is hardly fit- ting. Miss Colbert Is a.beautifully gowned Lucy, even though the pos- sessor of a conspicuously innocent expression and mannerism. Like in "RafTles" Gentleman Crook meets Lady Crook at the Jewel vault in the country place of their hostess. Their affections for each other and,vows to go straight are barely recorded before the slink- Ir.g Molatroff bursts into the room, when Menjou does a fiying tackle. Mr. and Mrs. RafTles in "The Mysteribus^ Mr;_JEfirkfi3," however, -don'trhaveTb duck^^he police. They ard automatically ex(uierated. ' Waly. TWICE wedd: ("Zweimat Hochzeit") (All Talker) (GERMAN MADE) Berlin, Aug. 22c Alllanzflim production and release. Orig- inal dialog comedy by Walter Wassermann, Walter Schlee and Karl Notl: directed by E. W. Emo; production management of Dr. Wllhelm Scekely. Muelo by Hana May. Cameraman. Willy WInteratein;' sound, Ernst Specht. Cast Includes Dane Hald, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Szoeke Szakall, Her- mann Krehan, Huszar Puffy and Paul Morsan. Running time, 86 minutes. At the U. T. Kurfurstendamm, Berlin. there is hardly any action. That one spot that can be taken that WAy- is. where the Eoldler-sweetheart a!;*' most gets Into a "fight With a bird over the girl, but 'doesn't. Cos- tumes okay all the way and offer ai| Interesting study^ As little ad possible should be said about this talkie. Its contents are to such a degree foolish and old- fashlohed that one feels sorry for the many good actors ■ who have wasted during many' weeks their work and their capabilities, achiev- ing- nothing as a result. No benefi- cial influence of the direction was to be felt anywhere. Some of the acting of Roberts, Szakail and Morgan-.was laughed at by the audience. The reproduction of the Klangfllm apparatus was bad and had a hoarse sound. It's doubtful if the German pub- lic will accept such a nonsense. Magnus. Means little to the American thea- tre except in spots where German may be spoken. These are few and sp'btted.' From a German or Hun- garian standpoint} however, it's a wow. Elsewhere n.'g. . Ufa's' flrist all talker In German is a visual demohstratlbh of' a stub- bom pride that clings patriotically to fundamentals. Ufa exhibits.Uttle or no progress in the making ot this ; picture, although the Germans, . as -well as the rest of Europe, have liad three years to ponder over errors made, in talkers by American pro- ' ducers.. Only point brought to light; and that mildly, is what American producers aje now demoiistratingi that speech', can be secondary to action Jn talkers, and effectively. Theme of this film, the latory and the direction, the usual C^erman quaitty of laborious sentiment, that tries to-be frank- about life in a; soft-way and fiops. Photography la good nearly all the way and the gecordlng is clear, althoagh enuhd- attoivln one or two "cases are noted, to be sharp. Interchanged on W. E. system at this New York house, -v Story is of a peasant girl hitting the big. town. She goes to serve as. ti housemaid. On her nightr off she meets lip with a soldier. They fall for each other and get tbgethCr to save enough money to buy a horse-^ since a horse is figured Will start off the .soldier on to..fortune as a farmer and success. Returning late, the girl's mistress shoves her out.. Ko work' followi^-. and the girl is hatched for a night resort, where she . entertains a la passionate. Soldier-lover accidentally finds this out, so he Hltiks lier over and ac- cepts his parents' klea to marry the daughter of a fieighbor farmer.;. - However, along comes the Inno cent cafe glrl^ and everything getit 'turned^ around again J:, fihe lived iat .night Jusi^ ^ to i earn money for the 'Hbrse thiat Iker boy'-frieRd-so much desired.' And she. actually buys a horse. Leaves it whelre the soldier can find it and then walks out into the-middle jot a beautiful lake to drown. The' Soldier saves her. This yarn "is. punctuated with music and. song where the Ger mans,'lii their zeal to prove realistic and original^ have copied the Amer' lean light opera idea to fiood the sequences with too much vocalizing, and too good considering the film a "life drama-.'.' There is more sing- ing actually than straight talk. . r . It is doubtful whether even Ger- man-Ametdca,ns, still mihdful of their native : tongue and former peasant 'abodes In Germany, can stomach the Idea of a peasant girl coming to town with rouged lips and pluckedl eyebrows and still look innocent. The director, who forgot this item when opening the film,, seems to have recollected such a thing later on, when the girl is shown deeply interested In another girl's lip'rouging pose. Miss Parlo Is attractive anyway. Willy Fritsch does a good job in his role, which offers him more real acting than he has ever shown in German films on this side. Both speak clearly, and In this respect much clearer thatt the rest> of the cast. The types are all okay else- where. In one spot there is a reminder of the Paramount film, "Monte Carlo," -Lubitsch^dlrectgd,Jjiow—showing-in New York. This is where workers in the field act as a chorus for pit stage chorus in songi Same-fchoo- choo shots also. But maybe that's a coincidence of simultaneous Ger-1 man thinking, Lubitsch being Deutches. Careful analysis may prove the film would go better as a silent. Dubbed or otherwise in any other tongue it would flop because of the weak story and the peculiar senti- mental vein which only Germans and Hungarians might understand. The instrumentation is okay gen- erally. In the opefiing are sequences much too loud, and where it should be incidental comes out too prom- inently to throw off the value of the histrionics. The scenes are in Budapest, Scenes of the Danube and the farm- yard village are pips, but that's where most of the photography ex- tends Itself, Otherwise in the side streets and the cafe scenes and beer gardens, as well as the sight seeing resort, the camera belabors with too much photography that lingers without worthwhile change. Which may or may not mean that the pro- ducers knew the stuff they had and tried to cover with the camera. It's the first time that Fritsch has been heard In song and he goes okay until heard too much. He's bari- tone, but not too strong and no range. From an American viewpoint £!hief appeal in this one will be for the ^unwired houses, playing it as a straight aUent - film, the syn- chronized musical ' score meaning precisely nothing for the big houses. Film .iiSi ;one of those Ruritanlan comedies, ■. threatening to hecome burlesque most of the while. : "While it has-been, made fairly-carefully its comedy never promlses«to be orig- inal,' \tnd : the material 1^ well worn throughout. r Story dealff- with- a: servaipt girl, who impersonates- a princess at a - coronation; at' one: of .those places whe^'b royalty gets bumped off every now-and then. Her boy friend goes with' her, helping her out of messes . with her supposed husband. ' - • Mechanics x>f the plot, the steady impersbnatibn jDf royalty by a ser- vant, the bedroom.farce when hubby comes back frbm looting bargain basementSi and the other gadgets of this- type of stuff get a big-size b'reak.' Sub-titling-got more laughs-at the trade show than the comedy itself^ Production,' leaving-the.aside,, is' good, the.'cbronatibn' probesslon being ov.er tlie JBnglish' average. Betty''"Balfour—this -was ..h.er last for Bi^tl^h .'internatlonal^oes her stuff in 'tiisual' way,: Balfoitf fans in - the grinds here Should like it^ GileA Syram Shawls nekt best in support, : -VtPicture .doesntt'meanv anything In^ these .talker days, but in the sticks - here - it. should prove useful qubui footage. ^;.:<7ftop. MISS EUROPE ^ ■■>■ (Ain>!lkeO^ ■ : ;f*(FRENCH MADE), - . 'v.^ia-#. ■-■ • Berlln,.Aug. 21.-;:.' '-Sofarflltn Trodactlon, Farlt; atid Meaatro*. - Oi^]l« release, Berlin, Starring liovliw Bv^bks, 3em Bra^tOf- Gaaton- Jacouet an4. 'A».- IIicolle,. DIreoted Vf -Atiguato QeAiilna., Rttitnlng ' time, :7Q:'lalqnUa. At Tlta^ia Palast. Berlin, - r-.- .r- < : .- '. ■ Ih itself this talker Iff neither betr teit nor worse : than most others. , Oireoflon of AUguikto Oennfna is oif ' a. much higher level than that of . most other'directbrs. - Jt shows thb . fight'conbeption for facjts, a.natural way oflbbking at thiili^and re^ty^ Script brings nothing' new, showing the rise ot /ii little . tyi»ist who be- cbmes the Beauty Queen, "Miss Eu- rope." . Against the. Wish of her .: friehdi a- typographer, she goes fo. the'film and is ShOt-hy him in the . . reprpductlon: room diirihg - the tak' ing ,oij; her first scene;;- This talker is -vetj^-interestlhif,' If only for the s'cenv 'When the'little-iglrl has sunk back , dead in Jier ehsit-' aud her tune-^picture continues singing' from the screen. O^lneT to bad synchron- - izatibh this talker is a teiXiue. After . five'days it'had to h^ removed.' The Titahla Palast has at. '<io times made ' such 'a- bad business with a film as. , with, this one*'; . i' ' ' The acting is very good. Xrotiise Brooks looks charining and she; knows how to move. Gaston Jacquet, Jean Bradin and'A.. Nicolle show that they are really gOod actors. : But their unnaturally low and badi^. ly synchronized voices are a perfect ruin of their good actings ilfo^ntM, . ("bie Vom Rummelplatz") (GERMAN MADE) . : Berlin, ^Aug. 21. , ^Ondi:A-lAipa<i: production Kit Cinema film -i«lease;^-^DIMted-^y~KHirt-ljldt]M serfpt Written by Weiuel Wfenwinaiin; dfafot by Htfhs H, Zerlett and Cbarlle" l^llnghoff; .titnslo by Jata .Btraef: Cast: Intlodes Ailnyt-.ondta. 8l^(rle4 Amoi Mar-. Strete Xnpfer, Victor 8chw«pnecke, Tonl Irardl. leut EhrMctai JiUiua FalkMwteln. Knrt jQerron, Paul Motigan. Cam«rmen,< Ottd Heller and Erich Oiese; sound. Frits Bflitger. Running time, 105 nlitutetA At IXnlversum^ BerTlir. . A charming picture, real amuse- ment.-and applauded in the middle 01 it. - Anny Ondra proved 'once more that , she is an. unusually good ac- tress and an excellent speaker. A small sweet person an^ remarkable dancer. We have not many of equal talenti . The able direction of Karl Lamac^r full of funny Ideas, improves rather mild story. All the actors, especially Siegfried Amo and Mar- garets Kupfer, know always how to niako people laugh. Julius Falken- steln attracts also In a small role. Reproduction of sound not dis- tinct and not clear. It appears ever and ever again that the talker rC'- productlon apparatus of the Berlin premier theatres Is not working satisfactorily. An appearance of a son of the late famous Vienna comedian Gir- ~ ardi, Tonl Girardl, can really not be met with approval. Obviously he has not Inherited even a small share of the talent of his gifted father. Buslnes.s expectations in Germany - for thi.s talk'cr excellent, Magnu$.