Modern Screen (Dec 1934 - Nov 1935)

MODERN SCREEN KEEP IN TUNE! Something new, something different— a magazine devoted entirely to Tin Pan Alley. Words and music to popular songs. Stories about your favorite blues singer. Special stories such as "Censor Nonsense" which tells how censors tried to clean up certain songs but made them twice as bad. Here are some of the songs you'll find in the December issue: I'M WHISTLIN' FOR MY HONEY • GIGOLETTE • DREAM OF ME • IS I GOTTA GO TO SCHOOL, MA? • DID YOU EVER SEE A DREAM WALKING? • LOVE THY NEIGHBOR • ILL WIND • HOW'S ABOUT TOMORROW NIGHT? • SHE REMINDS ME OF YOU a CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN HARLEM • WITH MY EYES WIDE OPEN I'M DREAMING • EMALINE • MY BABY'S ON STRIKE • IF IT ISN'T LOVE • GIVE ME A HEART TO SING TO • MANY THANKS FOR THE DANCE • HOW CAN YOU FACE ME a GEORGIE MAY • AN ORCHID TO YOU • A BOY AND A GIRL WERE DANCING • UNDERNEATH THE HARLEM MOON • HOME JAMES! AND DON'T SPARE THE HORSES • MOONGLOW • JUDY • HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY GOOD-BYE • SNAPSHOTS OF YOU • P.S. I LOVE YOU • IF YOU LOVE ME, SAY SO • WAY DOWN SOUTH IN NORTH CAROLINA • BECAUSE OF YOU • FOR ME AND MY GAL • BEAUTIFUL LAND OF MY DREAMS • IN THE MIDDLE OF A KISS • LA CUCARACHA • POPULAR SONGS now on safe fen cenfs BEAU -THOOD Patented Beau-T-Hood is the most direct method to loveliness ever devised. Made of famous Lastex fabric it prevents and helps to reduce double chin, preserves and fashions the contour of the face, feeds the nutritive properties of your favorite creams and lotions into your pores, reviving, stimulating, beautifying, while you sleep in comfort. Price, $3.50, check or money order, Folder on Request. BEAU-T-HOOD COMPANY, South Orange, New Jersey. no WESTLEY. HELEN: Free lance. Write her at RKORadio. WHEELER, BERT: RKO-Raciio. WHITE, ALICE: Universal. WIECK, DOROTHEA: Paramount. WILCOXON, HENRY: Paramount. WILLIAM, WARREN: Warner Bros. WILLIAMS, HUGH: Fox. WILSON. DOROTHY: Paramount. WILSON, LOIS: Free lance. Write her at Universal. WING, PAT: Warner Bros. WING. TOBY: Paramount. WONG, ANNA MAY: Paramount. WOODS. DONALD: Warner Bros. WOOLSEY, BOB: RKO-Radio. WRAY, FAY: Columbia. WYATT, JANE: Universal. WYNYARD, DIANA: M-G-M. YOUNG, ELIZABETH: Universal. YOUNG. LORETTA: M-G-M. YOUNG, POLLY ANN: Free lance. Write her at Fox. YOUNG. ROBERT: M-G-M. YOUNG. ROLAND: Paramount. YOUNG, TAMMANY: Free lance. Write him at Paramount. Reviews— A Tour of Today's Talkies (Continued from page 51) In fact, the finished picture seems to prove that there are too many people to handle. Story concerns a racketeer, Eddie Lowe, who becomes a famous radio commentator. He muffs his big chance with a phony broadcast and Gloria Stuart rescues him from overdrinking and eventual suicide in time for a happy ending. In the meantime, the idea allows for a lot of radio personalities to be introduced : Ruth Etting, Phil Baker, Ethel Waters, The Downey Sisters, Graham McNamee and Gus Arnheim's music. The comedy was furnished by Henry Armetta and a terrifically funny sequence with Karloff, Chester Morris, Roger Pryor and Paul Lukas. But, with it all, it leaves something to be desired. Just pleasant enough, that's all. B: DANGEROUS CORNER (RKO-Radio) Unusually interesting picture. In spite of the fact that there is little or no action — the entire story takes place in one room — this film is so "different" that we think you will enjoy it. About a group of people, whose conversation gets around to a robbery and suicide of three years before. Gradually, one after another the characters involve themselves in bits of hitherto unrevealed evidence and the story becomes exciting and tense. Conrad Nagel comes back with a fine performance and Virginia Bruce and Erin O'Brien Moore are well cast. Ian Keith, Melvyn Douglas and Doris Lloyd contribute to the picture in no small way. It is difficult to place this picture in a particular category, possibly a drawing-room mystery is close enough. Not sensational, but entertaining all the way. C: THE LEMON DROP KID (Paramount) Poor ol' Tracy, still giving us those time-worn "double-takes" and vaudeville eyebrows to get over his drammer. If this didn't make two bad ones in a row for Lee Tracy, we might think that some of the credit for this disappointing picture should fall on Mr. Neilan, the director, but we can't. And there was nothing wrong with Damon Runyon's story so we're even more taken aback than usual. Little Helen Mack was badly photographed and she's so thin, it's pitiful. The only credible performance is turned in by William Frawley as the Professor — he even sings ! Baby LeRoy just walks through it ; he must have realized the result wouldn't do him any good. We can't honestly say much for this one. C: DEATH ON THE DIAMOND (M-G-M) If you are a baseball fan, you might like it from that angle ; if you aren't, there isn't much in the way of entertainment for you. Love on the diamond, murders, big gamblers, betting the wrong way. Through all this wanders Bob Young as a baseball pitcher who falls in love with Madge Evans, the daughter of the manager. Some of the situations are farfetched and the results are not very satisfying. The love story fails to be convincing and the mystery is not overloaded with suspense. In spite of a good cast, including Nat Pendleton, Paul Kelly and Ted Healy, the picture falls into the "average entertainment" class. Let your sporting-blood guide you. C: WAGON WHEELS (Paramount) The old wagon-trail stuff, comedy guides, Indian attacks, the hero and a beautiful widow with her small son. You can just see the wagons tipping over into the river, can't you? Well, they do, you can be sure. Gail Patrick is swell as the widow ; she puts a real punch into her role. Randolph Scott does his usual stuff and hints a bit at love-making with Gail. The remainder of the cast, including Monte Blue and Raymond Hatton, does pretty well. Nothing new, but you Western fans may get a kick out of it. C: THE DUDE RANGER (Fox) An average Western. There is nothing new and nothing startling about this picture. This time, the young eastern lad, George O'Brien, inherits the ranch and comes west to find that all his cattle are disappearing. It's the first time George has had to come so far to find out. Irene Hervey is the gal and she's okay, too. If you like Westerns and aren't too fussy about having seen and read the plot many times before, this might be all right for you. Even for a Western, though, this is no rave. Better think twice. C: CRIMSON ROMANCE (Mascot) Outdated war picture. The theme is too time-worn and the idea too gruesome and bloody to suit us. Ben Lyon joins the German army with his buddy, James Bush, and they both fall for a little ambulance driver, Sari Maritza. Of course, when the United States enters the war, Ben refuses to fight on the German side and is about to face the firing squad when his buddy helps him escape. A rather unnecessary picture, we thought. D: DOWN TO THEIR LAST YACHT (RKO-Radio) It looks as if the studio had originally