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THIS MONTH
The Unholy Three Holiday
Sweethearts And Wives With Byrd At The South Pole The Bad One The Big House
Cause to Celebrate
r HERE'S a real film feast offered the fans in "Holiday," a smart, sophisticated love drama <ilfully adapted from Philip Barry's play. The ialogue is just about the best thus far heard in the ilkies, with a perfect cast.
The story is about a boy and two girls, sisters. One ruled by a respect for riches. The other by a love of ving. The lover's loyalties are torn between the two -and their ideals. There is a deal of delightful comedy >ainst a background grim with tragic threat before le tangled skein is finally straightened. Ann Harding and Mary Astor are the sisters. Each utterly exquisite, but perhaps Miss Astor provides le greater surprise. Instead of the bread-and-butter Iiss of silent days, she shows strength, depth and uncrstanding; not to mention a new and seductive charm.
Up on Its Toes
THE BAD ONE" is pretty good. In fact, the first half of this Dolores del Rio — Edmund owe talkie ranks pretty much on a level with the ( St contributed by these favorites. But then lungs go Hollywood with a vengeance, and the iter sequences are just so much hokum.
The scene is Marseilles; Dolores is a cabaret irl; Eddie a roving Casanoua of all Seven Seas. !'he courtship is lusty and a little lewd. But the lean flame of true love finally emerges from the moke of the smudge pots, only to be dampened /hen the hero is jailed for the murder of a rival, circumstantial evidence destroys his faith in he girl.
She follows to his island prison through the ruse f an engagement to his guard. Then comes the lash for freedom, with Lowe winning pardon by rustrating the murderous plans of the halfrazed convicts. In conclusion there is a hope for lappiness when the couple departs for the States. Joth players are fine in the earlier sequences. ?ut not even they can prevent the collapse of the )icture in its last half.
Stark Drama Here
r7EARS0ME and bitter as the grey, gun-guarded r ramparts of "The Big House," itself, is the tragic outine of hopelessness and the riot of death and lesperation depicted in this stark picture drama. It is o real it hurts. And yet there is a leavening of laughter rresistible even in the shadow of doom.
The tale itself is slight and trite. But the prison jackground is so compelling that any fable would be Iwarfed in comparison. The principal protagonists are hree widely different types who meet behind the bars. Dne a bullying killer; the second a brainy crook, and he third, a weak-kneed boy whose yellow streak brings \ relentless fate in its wake.
The most gripping sequences portray the futile attempt to seize liberty through a jail break. But there ire others only less enthralling. Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery and Wallace Beery contribute the best characterizations of their careers.
At the top, Robert Ames, Mary Astor and Ann Harding (starring ) make "Holiday" a worth-while film. At the left, Edmund Lowe and Dolores del Rio combine their talents for "The Bad One." Below is a scene from "The B-g House," a graphic picture of prison life enacted by Wallace Beery, Chester Morris and Robert Mont
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