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

Modern Screen sional and romantic. Lew Ay res and Mae Clarke have the leading roles. Good — okay for kids. IT'S TOUGH TO BE FAMOUS (First National) — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., depicting the story of a man whose marriage is nearly ruined because he suddenly becomes a national hero. Fair. KEEP LAUGHING (Educational)— Slapstick in a night club. Very funny. Good — great for children. LADIES OF THE JURY (RKO-Radio) — Edna May Oliver as a persuasive member of a jury. The story concerns the reaching of the verdict. Good — kids will like some of it. LADY WITH A PAST ( RKO-Pathe)— Constance Bennett as a gal who pretends to have a glamorous past in order to intrigue the man she loves. David Manners is the man she does it all for. Good — kids will like some of it. LETTY LYNTON (M-G-M) — Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther in an intense love story. Very good — but not especially so for the little ones. Reviewed in detail on page 49. LIMPY MAKES GOOD (M-G-M) — Jackie Cooper and Chic Sale in a human, pathetic little story. Good — and especially so for the children. Reviewed in detail on page 49. LOST SQUADRON (RKO-Radio) — A story of the stunt aviators who risk their lives for the sake of the cinema cameras. Richard Dix, Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong, Eric Von Stroheim and Mary Astor head the strong cast. Excellent — okay for the children. LOVE AFFAIR (Columbia)— Dorothy Mackaill as an heiress who falls in love with an aviator — and finds difficulties besetting the path to happiness Fair. LOVERS COURAGEOUS (M-G-M) — Robert Montgomery and Madge Evans in a rather charming romance. Excellent love story but children will get restless. MAN WANTED (Warner) — A business woman who has a philandering husband falls in love with her male secretary with, of course, some emotional results. Kay Francis and David Manners have the leads. Fair — dull for children. THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD (Warner)— A brilliant pianist is struck deaf by a bomb explosion and, then, after a thwarted attempt at suicide, decides to dedicate his life to doing good to his neighbors. Good, if you like sentimental drama — all right for the kids. MATA HARI (M-G-M) — Greta Garbo in a Hollywood version of the famous spy case. Ramon ■ Novarro plays the lover. Excellent — but not for children. MICHAEL AND MARY (Universal)— A. A. Milne with all-English cast. A charmingly romantic story capably played. Very good if you like English characters and speech— children may be bored by rt. THE MIRACLE MAN (Paramount)— Revival of the famous success of silent days — with talking, of course, and a new cast. Chester Morris, Sylvia Sidney, Hobart Bosworth, and John Wray head the new cast. Very good — children should like it. MISS PINKERTON (Warner)— Joan Blondell and George Brent in a thrilling mystery. Good — children will find it exciting. Reviewed in detail on page 49. THE MOUTHPIECE (Warner)— Warren William in a story about law and lawyers. Very good — but hardly for children. MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (Universal) — If you want chills and thrills you'll be satisfied, but if you want Edgar Allan Poe you'll be disappointed. Very good if you like horror pictures —better not take the kids. THE MISLEADING LADY (Paramount)— Claudette Colbert as a society deb who is tired of it all, Edmund Lowe as a big mining engineer and Stuart Erwin as an escaped lunatic. Pretty involved to little purpose. Fair. ONE HOUR WITH YOU (Paramount)— Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young and Charles Ruggles. Ernest Lubitsch directed this pleasant musical, ruthlessly throwing reality to the winds. Excellent sophisticated stuff — children probably won't like it. THE PASSIONATE PLUMBER (M-G-M) — Jimmie Durante and Buster Keaton in a knockabout comedy. Very funny — excellent for children. PLAY GIRL (First National) — Modern romance with Loretta Young, Norman Foster and Winnie Lightner. Good — children may like parts of it. POLLY OF THE CIRCUS (M-G-M)— A sometimes tiresome love story with a circus background. Marion Davies as a circus performer and Clark Gable as the he-man minister with whom Marion falls in love. Good — okay to take the offspring. PRESTIGE (RKO-Pathe)— Story of the trials of a married couple who are forced to live in a penal colony because the husband is an officer and is sent there on duty. Fair — children will be bored by it. THE RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US (First National)— Ruth Charterton, George Brent and Bette Davis in a married-woman' s-problem story. Good — but the young people will find it dull. Reviewed in detail on page 49. RIDER OF DEATH VALLEY (Universal)— Tom Mix, Tony, and Lois Wilson in a good Western that provides a splendid come-back vehicle for Mix. Good — fine for children. Reviewed in detail on page 50. 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