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Joan Crawford and Walter Huston in "Rain."
Joel McCrea and Dolores Del Rio "Bird of Paradise."
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OF TODAY'S TALKIES
Eric Linden and Joan Blondell in "Big City Blues."
BIG CITY BLUES (Warner Bros.)
Country boy (Eric Linden) storms Big City (New York) and falls for hard-boiled but true-blue chorine (Joan Blondell). A girl is killed at
a drinking party in the boy's room ; his champagne-bottle pals desert him — all but Joan. He didn't do it and Joan didn't do it, but it's tough convincing the police.
Good comedy and fast-moving action. Linden and Blondell stack up high as a team.
THE BLONDE
VENUS
(Paramount)
In this, Marlene plays a New York housewife and mother. Her chemist husband (Herbert Marshall) is poisoned and she needs money to send him to Europe for a cure. Working in a night club, she needs still more money and accepts it from Cary Grant. This makes trouble. But there's a happy ending of course.
Marlene sings — and what clothes she wears ! Dickie Moore, as her son, almost cops the prizes. Excellent.
You have probably seen Jeanne RAIN Eagels or Gloria Swanson in the (United Artists) dramatic role of Sadie Thompson. Now Joan Crawford brings this character to the talking screen, with a supporting cast that shames comparison. Walter Huston is tremendous as the fanatical reformer, and that newcomer, William Gargan, plays the hard-boiled Marine with finesse. Guy Kibbee, Walter Catlett and Beulah Bondi are excellent.
Joan Crawford tops any of her former portrayals as the society-scorned Sadie who falls in love with the Marine and proves the minister who would reform her a hypocrite. This is one of Hollywood's most pretentious offerings. Don't miss it.
Director King Vidor, Dolores Del BIRD OF
Rio, Joel McCrea, an excellent sup PARADISE porting cast and the men behind the (Radiol cameras, all deserve highest praise ' '
for contributing to the breath-taking beauty of this.
The story is old. It concerns the great love of an American boy (Joel McCrea) for a South Sea princess (Dolores Del Rio) who, the tribal laws demand, must marry a native prince. The princess and her white lover hide on an isolated island, later to be captured by the revengeful native prince who plots to offer them to the volcanic god, Peli. The lovers are rescued by the boy's companions, but not for the conventional happy ending.
M-G-M gave this a notable mount BLONDIE OF ing and a better-than-good cast. JHE FOLLIES
Blondie (Marion Davies) is the in (M-G-M) nocent one who walks the straight ^ '
and-narrow path to success in the "Follies." While her chum (Billie Dove) tries to go the same place, via the path of primroses. Billie's heavy sugar, Robert Montgomery, falls in love with the sweet, square-shooting Blondie. Jealousy overcomes her girl friend and during the "Follies" routine, Billie lets go Marion's hand, and the fall seriously injures the latter.
There is finally a happy ending. Jimmy Durante, James Gleason and Zasu Pitts complete the cast.
Read them carefully before you decide which show to choose
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