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. Chester A. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. Charles Booth Assistant Preview Chairmen Mrs. Thomas B. Williamson EDITORS Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen 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. Advance Supplement is published and mailed approximately the 15th of each month. 10c Per Copy $1.00 Per Year Vol. VI NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 5 FEATURE FILMS THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI * » Constance Bennett, Frederick March, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray. From the stage play, “The Firebrand,” by Justus Mayer. Screened by Bess Meridyth. Direction Gregory La Cava. 20th Century Picture released through United Artists. Frederick March’s Cellini is a touselheaded incorrigible adult-infant whose violent exploits make him irresistible to the ladies. No less incorrigible but perhaps less adult is Frank Morgan’s Duke of Florence, fond of hanging his enemies and affectionately known to his girl friends as “Bumpy.” Frederick March more often cast as a young intellectual and inappropriate in a blustering role, loses playing honors to Frank Morgan, who makes an engagingly fatuous tyrant. Others are adequate, not exciting. Lavish costumes, glittering extravagance brighten the production, but do not make it notable. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Sophisticated No interest NT ANNE OF GREEN CABLES » » Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O. P. Heggie, Helen Westley. From the novel by L. M. Montgomey. Adaptation by Sam Mnitz. Photography by Lucien Andriot. Direction by George Nicholls, Jr. R-K-O. Like “Little Women” this is another heartwarming picturization of a loved childhood book, which, because of its genuine comedy and sincerity, and delightful characterizations will have wide appeal. Anne (“spelled with an ‘e’ please”) is the child sent from the orphanage into a household which expected a boy. Her preposterous imagination, her extravagant vocabulary and her lovable nature get her into many amazing situations but so win the dour old maid and her bachelor brother that they soon forget that they ever wanted anyone else. It is beautifully handled. O. P. Heggie and Helen Westley are as real as life, and Anne Shirley is utterly charming. There isn’t a possible objection to this delightful and amusing tale, perfect for children and with perennial appeal to all grown ups who have not forgotten how to enjoy a homey story. Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12 Excellent Good, especially over 1 0 years ■cr AMONG THE MISSING » » Richard Cromwell, Henrietta Crosman, Billie Seward. From the story by Florence Wagner. Screen play by Fred Niblo, Jr. and Herbert Asbury. Direction by Al Rogell. Columbia. This story is told simply and without undue emotionalism and is coordinated by the dominating purpose of an old woman to save a boy from a life of crime. It is doubtful whether the knowledge that punishment follows th'e crimes committed mitigates the influence of the criminal act itself, for the