Film Fun (1928 - 1942 (assorted issues))

GIFT OF GAB. Universal. If you love a parade, especially a parade of radio favorites, take a look at this. Phil Baker, Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Gene Austin, The Beale Street Boys, Graham McNamee, Alexander Woollcott Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in a scene from their forthcoming screen musical. Babes in Toyland, in which they play the leads. Lee Tracy and Helen Mack, whom you saw in You Belong to Me , are back together again in a Damon Runyon yarn known as The Lemon Drop Kid. Ruth Etting croons while Phil Baker tickles the ivories on his faithful accordion, and they're doing it all for Gift of Gab . and Gus Arnheim’s band. In the dra¬ matic department are Edmund Lowe, Helen Vinson, Paul Lukas, Alice White, Victor Moore, Roger Pryor, and Hugh O’Connell. HAPPINESS AHEAD. Warner Broth¬ ers. Marking the cinematic debut of Joseph¬ ine Hutchinson, the young stage star, who looks like a sure bet for the movies. Josephine, tired of her wealthy com¬ panions, deserts them to find happiness with a window washer named Dick Powell. Despite the familiar theme, it’s pleasant entertainment HERE COMES THE NAVY. Warner Brothers. Jimmy Cagney joins the navy mainly to have a few sharp words with Pat O’Brien, a petty officer who is not what you'd call one of Jimmy’s pals. On the other hand, James is in love with Pat’s sister, Gloria Stuart. Plenty of action and laughs here, with Frank McHugh in a supporting role. KANSAS CITY PRINCESS. Warner Brothers. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, dis¬ satisfied with their manicurist jobs, step out for big game and bump into ad¬ venture and a few complications. A nice comedy with Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert and Osgood Perkins. LOVE TIME. Universal. The romance of Franz Schubert, with Nils Asther playing the eminent com¬ poser and Pat Paterson as the light of his life. Fine performances by the leads and several beautiful Schubert melodies serve to make this one a fairly engag¬ ing photoplay. MILLION DOLLAR RANSOM. Uni¬ versal. An ex-gangster goes straight and sacri¬ fices his life to foil a kidnapping plot. Adapted from one of Damon Runyon’s stories, it has humor and suspense, and an ' excellent cast headed by Edward Arnold, Phillips Holmes and Mary Car¬ lisle. MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH. Paramount. W. C. Fields, Zasu Pitts, Pauline Lord, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor and Don¬ ald Meek are a few of the people you'll find around Mrs. Wigg’s well-known cabbage patch. It’s an adaptation of the story you must have read at least once. NOW AND FOREVER. Paramount. Your favorite movie queen, Shirley Temple, with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard to aid her, turns in another swell performance and succeeds in mak¬ ing Now And Forever something worth seeing. Story concerns the activities of a confidence man and his lady friend. And here is Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in one of their non-dancing moments from their new musical romance. The Gay Divorcee. OF HUMAN BONDAGE. RKO-Radio. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in a screen adaptation of Somerset Maug¬ ham’s classic novel. Excellent through¬ out, due largely to the expert portrayals offered by the leads. Cast includes Regi¬ nald Denny, Alan Hale and Frances Dee. ONE NIGHT OF LOVE. Columbia. A charming and highly entertaining musical, with beautiful Grace Moore, the opera star, in the lead. Others in the cast are Tullio Carmiriati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie and Luis Albemi. Rich in drama and grand singing, it’s well worth a visit. WE WANT you TO TEST the Weil Belt at our Expense ! DON’T let a ’'hay window” make you the ’hutt’ of locker-room jokes! The Weil Belt will take inches off that paunchy waistline...3 inches in todays to be exact... or it won’t cost you a red cent. ■ The old adage. 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