Motion Picture Reviews (1934)

Motion Picture Reviews Three MOTION * PICTURE * REVIEWS Published monthly by THE WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY CLUB LOS ANGELES BRANCH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN Mrs. Palmer Cook, General Co-Chairman Mrs. John Vruwink, General Co-Chairman Mrs. Charles Ommaney, Preview Chairman Mrs. A. M. Marsh, Business Manager Mrs. Charles Booth Assistant Preview Chairmen Mrs. Thomas B. Williamson EDITORS Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allan Davis Mrs. George Ryall Mrs. Walter Van Dyke Mrs. John Vruwink Address all communications to The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. 1 Oe Per Copy $1.00 Per Year Vol. V FEBRUARY, 1934 No. 2 EDITORIAL The purpose of this bulletin is to give information on current motion picture releases in order to further selective attendance not only for children but for those of our readers who do not just “go to the movies,” and who may agree with our opinion in the pictures reviewed. The value of reviews is timeliness, and in order to give earlier information we are sending out in addition to the monthly “Reviews” a mid-month advance supplement. We hope that this service will be helpful to our subscribers, many of whom live in eastern and southern states where the time of release varies. featureTilms ALL OF ME » » Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, George Raft, Helen Mack. Based on the play, “Chrysalis” by Rose Albert Porter. Direction by James Flood. Paramount. The world would be better off without this melodramatic film. A rich young thing, spoiled beyond endurance, dabbles in immorality with a luckless college professor and then turns her attention to a young criminal and his common-law wife. Her interference results in death for both of them. She is presumably reformed in the end, but it is doubtful if she is worth the sacrifice. When actors with such magnetic personalities as have Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins take the leading parts, the play is bound to demand attention and wreak no small amount of moral havoc. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Pernicious No ANGKOR » * Directed by George Merrick. Roy Purdin Producer. We are told that two explorers went to Cambodia in 1912 with the intention of searching for the lost civilization of Angkor and that this picture is inspired by their records. It is not convincing as a travelogue but contains some interesting material, pictures of tropical animals, and illustrations of the weird native beliefs and strange practices of monkey worship. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 No value No T BELOVED » » John Boles, Gloria Stuart, Albert Conti. Direction by Victor Schertzinger. Universal. This is the story of four generations of musicians struggling against odds to maintain the integrity of their art. The early scenes