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"What shall we see?" These reviews will help you choose
TAKE THIS WOMAN (Paramount)
CAROLE LOMBARD packs this one up in a neat parcel and walks away with the picture in a superb performance as a snooty daughter of the effete East who falls victim to the darts of a cowboy Cupid. The story itself is so well worn that it forces the film into the ranks of program pictures. But you'll want to see it for Carole's performance. And then, too, our old pal Gary Cooper is the steer-andStetson hero.
The girl goes West, you see, when she becomes involved in a home-town scandal. In vamping Gary, a strong-silent-man, she loses her own heart. Their marriage goes haywire, however, because she shows a yellow streak when confronted with ranch-house hardships. But she redeems herself when Gary is injured by a bucking bronc. Gary gets none of the best of it in this role.
JUST A GIGOLO (M-C-M)
AVERY talky talkie, containing little enough action doesn't find William Haines happily cast as a youthful nobleman masquerading as a dime-a-dance-man. There is, however, a certain amount of rough-house fun in the film, and a traditional chase sequence strives for an hilarious ending. The fade-out kiss, incidentally, is given and taken in the bath-room, after Bill chases Irene Purcell, following her delivery of a well-directed wallop.
The poorly developed plot intimates that Bill goes gigolo to meet new girls, but the surprise denouement is that he has been protecting his wealth from gold-digging adventuresses. Miss Purcell, the heroine, is aware of the disguise. But this, too, is a secret until the bathroom finale. Haines gets fine support from C. Aubrey Smith, Albert Conti and other capable players.
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THE BLACK CAMEL (Fox)
HERE'S Warner Oland again posing as Charlie Chan, the wise-cracking Chinese detective who finally solves Earl Derr Bigger's Hawaiian murder mystery on that beach at Waikiki. And again Mr. Oland makes a thorough-going job of it. The picture adheres to the tale upon which it is based, and avoids the too many complications that made the story slightly tedious.
Those who revel in detective thrillers — and many of our best minds do just that — will find an interesting hour in watching Mr. Oland select the murderer from a cast including Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier, Victor Varconi, Marjorie White, Richard Tucker, J. M. Kerrigan and Robert Young. Next to Charlie Oland — we mean Warner Chan — Victor Varconi and Bela Lugosi are best. You'll never guess the culprit's identity.
THE SQUAW MAN (M-C-M)
THERE'S still considerable kick left in this old stage drama which has been ably resurrected in the present version. It fairly reeks of the Great Open Spaces, hemen, and little gals, and is refreshingly primitive after a plethora of slick city cinemas. It provides Warner Baxter with an opportunity to present a picture of spurred romance. And gives Lupe Velez a role for which she is finely suited. Aside from thrill and love interest, the comedy is placed in the competent hands of J. Farrell MacDonald and Raymond Hatton.
Indeed, the picture may be classed as one of those allstar revivals, for in addition to the talent listed, Eleanor Boardman, Charles Bickford, Roland Young, Paul Cavanaugh, Julia Faye and others ably enact the familiar roles. Thus the picture is a guaranty of entertainment.