Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen KEEP LAUGHING (Educational)— Two reel comedy -slapstick in a night club. Very funny. Good : — great for children. .ADIES OF THE JURY (RKO-Radio)— Edna May Oliver as a member of a jury in an amusing court room story. Good — kids will like some of it. LADY WITH A PAST (RKO-Pathe)— In this story Constance Bennett who is really a simple little society girl pretends to have a past in order to impress the boy she adores. Good — kids will like some of it. LOST SQUADRON (RKO-Radio) — A thrilling story revolving around the men who do the air stunts for the movies. Richard Dix, Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong, Eric Von Stroheim and Mary Astor are in the cast. Excellent — okay for the children. LOVERS COURAGEOUS (M-G-M)— Love story specially written for the screen by the noted English author, Frederick Lonsdale. Robert Montgomery and Madge Evans play the romantic lovers. Excellent love story — but children may get restless. MAN WANTED (Warner) — Kay Francis_ and David Manners in business romance. Fair — dull for children. Reviewed ill detail on page 50. THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD (Warner)— George Arliss as a brilliant pianist who goes deaf through an accident and becomes embittered with life. Turned from suicide by his butler he realizes that life has still some things to offer and spends his time doing good to people. Good, if you like sentimental drama — all right for the kids. MANHATTAN PARADE (Warner)— Winnie Lightner and Charlie Butterworth in a theatre story with Winnie as the noble sacrificing young lady. Fair— okay for the kids, in fact they may like it. MATA HARI (M-G-M)— Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in a version of the famous Dutch spy story. The story does not follow the accepted biographies of Mata Hari but. nevertheless, you won't want to miss it. Excellent — not for children MICHAEL AND MARY (Universal)— An A. A. Milne story produced in England with an allEnglish cast. It has a charmingly romantic story and is capably played. Very good if you like English characters and speech — children may be bored with it. THE MIRACLE MAN (Paramount)— Sylvia Sidney and Chester Morris in talkie remake of famous silent picture. Very good — children should like it. Reviewed in detail on page 48 THE MOUTHPIECE (Warner)— Lawyer story with Warren William. Very good — not for children. Reviewed in detail on page 48. MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (Universal) — A decidedly Hollywood version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story. In the movie there are six murders instead of two as in the original. And in many other ways the story has been completely changed. As a thrilling movie — ■ quite apart from comparing it with the Poe story — you will find it interesting. Very good if you like horror pictures — better not take the children. NICE WOMEN (Universal) — Sidney Fox, Frances Dee, Lucille and Russell Gleason in a story of young love, a scheming mother and wealthy old man. Fair — children won't get much out of it. ONE HOUR WITH YOU (Paramount)— Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald. Genevieve Tobin and Roland Young in a talkie musical version of the famous old silent picture called "The Marriage Circle." Ernst Lubitsch, who directed the silent picture, also directed this. Excellent sophisticated stuff — children probably won't like it. PANAMA FLO (RKO-Radio) — Waterfront melodrama with Helen Twelvetrees, Charles Bickford and others. Fair — not much for kids. THE PASSIONATE PLUMBER (M-G-M)--Buster Keaton and Jimmie Durante in amusing adaptation of famous stage play, "Her Cardboard Lover." Very funny — excellent for children. PLAY GIRL (First National) — Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young and young Norman Foster in a "Bad Girl" type of story. Good — children may like parts of it. POLLY OF THE CIRCUS (M-G-M)— Marion Davies and Clark Gable in a circus love story. You'll be somewhat surprised to see Clark Gable in the guise of a young minister. Good — okay to take the offspring. POSSESSED (M-G-M)— Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in a sizzling love story. Joan is the little girl from the country who thinks — for a while — that clothes, and jewels are everything. Don't miss the love scenes between Clark and Joan. Very good— but better leave the children at home. PRESTIGE (RKO-Radio) — Slow story of a married couple who — because the husband is there on duty — are forced to live in a penal colony. Ann Harding and Melvyn Douglas have the leading roles. Fair — children will be bored by it. PRIVATE LIVES (M-G-M) — Delightful story of a divorced couple — still in love — who meet again on the first night of their respective second marriage. Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery have the leading roles. Very good — but children may get fidgety. THIS RECKLESS AGE (Paramount)— The younger generation again — their doings and goings-on. Buddy Rogers is in it — among others. Good — kids may like parts of it. THE ROAD TO LIFE (Amkino)— Story of the wild Soviet boys and how they were trained to be upstanding citizens. Interesting. SCARFACE (Caddo-United Artists)— Gangster film with plenty of shooting and excitement — and also (Continued on page 121) Enter each day's Beauty Contest with a fresh, clear skin! Eyes— Eyes— Eyes! Looking at you, judging you. Every day, all your life, you are in a Beauty Contest! Today, get a dozen cakes of Camay. Camay will keep your skin so fresh, so exquisitely soft, that you'll get admiration wherever you go. This lovely bride has won the greatest Beauty Contest of all. Her precious veil is no lovelier than her exquisite skin. Keep your skin soft and fresh with gentle Camay! Creamy-white, fine of texture — Camay is truly the Soap of Beautiful Women. No amount of money could buy a gentler, more luxurious beauty soap. To take care of that precious skin of yours, take care what soap you use. 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