Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (Jan - Dec 1932)

HOLLYWOOD MOVIES 33 J _ ► %>J 'X 'C JSi'al. * HAT CHECK GIRL— In which Sally Eilers does a cross between Ann Dvorak and Jean Harlow, and looks fairly well in “undies.” Ben Lyon performs well, as doe3 the shapely Ginger Rogers. Others in the Fox cast are Monroe Owsley, Arthur Pierson, Noel Madison, Purnell Pratt, Dewey Robinson, Harold Goodwin and Eualie Jensen. Capably directed by Sidney Lanfield. Excellent. MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM.— A striking German photoplay in which Dorothea Wieck (the German Norma Shearer) and Hertha Thiele have the leading roles; ably supported by Ellen Schwannecke, Emilia Unda and Hedwig Schlicter. Titles are in English. Everything is easy to understand and the film is a real gem of the cinematographer’s art. Will be rated one of the year’s best. NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. — Paramourit with George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson. Alison Skipworth, Raiscoe Karas, Louis Calhern and Bradley Page. Chucked full of clever dialogue, comedy, romance and suspense. Has a swing to it which should appeal to any audience. The story concerns a “pug” owner of a speakeasy in a swell . district and it’s humor indeed. Excellent. THE KID FROM SPAIN. — Samuel Goldwyn production starring Eddie Cantor and displaying the pulchritude of Nancy Nash, Edyth Roark, Loretta Andrews, Betty Bassette, Shirley Chambers, Renne Whitney, June Glory, Toby Wing, Vivianne Mathison, Consuela Baker, Lynn Browning, and others. A tuneful, musical comedy, — well staged and eapably directed. It’s excellent! RAIN. — The photoplay recently released by United Artists is a “humdinger,” — packs a knockout punch for the hypocritical “reformer” type of missionary who meddles in other folks’ morals and can’t control his own sex passions. Joan Crawford has the role originally assigned to Jeanne Eagles in the play, while Walter Huston “steals the show” as the island missionary. A very joad “movie.” LIBERTY ROAD. — Radio Pictures have been very reticent as to what the name of “Liberty Road,” starring the pretty and youthful Rochelle Hudson, and Tom Brown, has been changed to; and as we haven’t yet had a chance to review it, no recommendation can be made one way or the other. Possibly it ran at the Palace Theatre where we receive no press courtesies. Reported as “just fair.4* YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL.— First, National Pictures with Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston S. Foster, Arthur Byron, Sheila Terry, Frank Hagney, Oscar Apfel, Walter Walker, Edwin Maxwell,’ Harry Gribbon and Mia Marvin. Here’s Joe again in a dandy comedy hit. Victim of mistaken identity, but filling the other chap’s shoes in his own style. Laughing all the way. FAST COMPANIONS— Universal Pictures with Tom Brown, James Gleason, Maureen O’Sullivan, Andy Devine and Mickey Rooney. Race track and reformation theme, nothing new save the twist given the script as originally conceived, yet it is full of heart interest with good action and excellent direction. One of those really worth-while heart trobs which Universal excels at. SSSSSS5SES5EE55S52525E2533S CENTRAL PARK. — First National, with Joan Blondell. Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Henry B. Walthall, Charles Sellon, Spenter Charters, Harold Huber, John Wray and Harry Seymour. It’s a story of country boy and girl in the big city with all it portends; highly melodramatic; full of action; calculated to quicken the pulse; and good entert a inment.