Hollywood Spectator (1938)

Hollywood Spectator Page Thirty-one standard of criticism should not be applied to class A and class B pictures, that Nurse From Brooklyn is "only a class B." When film exploitation depart¬ ments begin to advertise a production as "only a class B’’ I will be glad to criticize it with regard for the degree of candor thus displayed. Simon's Direction Good . . . HE part assigned to Sally Eilers provides her with no such opportunities as she had in Condemned Women , in which she gave such a good performance. She is a negative character, her only positive contri¬ bution to the story being her agreement to assist in the murder of the man she loves, but she does not stick to even that resolution. Instead, she agrees to marry him in order to give the story the conventional film ending. Paul Kelly makes the most of a poorly written part. He is made much too frivolous to match what should be the dramatic mood of a crime story. Morgan Conway, who recently came back to Holly¬ wood after two years on the New York stage, is ex¬ cellent in the few scenes in which he appears. He ap¬ peals to me as an actor who could achieve great popu¬ larity on the screen. Maurice Murphy starts the pic¬ ture off in a most engaging manner, but is murdered promptly in order to give the authorities a crime to solve. Director Sylvan Simon is in no way to blame for the unsatisfactory results obtained. No director could have made a good picture out of such a poor script. His work shows promise and demonstrates he would be a safe man to trust with a more important job. Whatever merits Nurse From Brooklyn contains are to be credited to him. AS SILLY AS ITS TITLE . . . ® GO CHASE YOURSELF; RKO release of a Robert Sisk production; director, Edward F. Cline; screen play by Paul Yawitz and Bert Granef original story by Walter O'Keefe; musical director, Roy Webb; photographed by Jack MacKenzie; special effects, Vernon L. Walker; art director. Van Nest Polglase; associate art director, Feild M. Gray; gowns. Renie; edited by Desmond Marquette; song by Hal Raynor. Cast: Joe Penner, Lucille Ball, Richard Lane, June Travis, Fritz Feld, Tom Kennedy. Granville Bates, Bradley Page, George Irving, Arthur Stone, Jack Carson, Frank M. Thomas. Reviewed by Bert Harlen EW bright spots and many dull ones characterize Go Chase Yourself, the new Joe Penner opus. The story depends for its motivation upon Penner’s being a congenital idiot, and then is kept on its feet by large injections of coincidence. This, of course, might be overlooked if the piece were consistently funny, but it is not. Two or three of the gags were RANCHO CORTEZ America's Finest Training School for Horses TOM BAIR, Manager Phone Van Nuys 1750 MARK SMITH, Head Trainer 13504 HART STREET 20 Years' Experience 2 Blks East Woodman Ave. We Train Show, Stock, Polo, Trick, Picture Horses and Jumpers