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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS
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MOTION * PICTURE * REVIEWS
Published monthly by
THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB
I.OS 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. Thomas B. Williamson, Assistant Preview Chairman Mrs. Francis Poyas, Subscription Chairman Cooperating Branches
Long Beach Glendale Santa Monica Whittier
EDITORS
Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. George Ryall Mrs. John Vruwink Address all communications to
The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California
10c Per Copy $1.00 Per Year
Vol. Xn DECEMBER, 1938 No. 12
Copyright 1938 by Women's University Club of Los Angeles
FEATURE FILMS
ARREST BULLDOG DRUMMOND O O
John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, Elizabeth Patterson. Based on "The Final Count" by H. C. McNeile. Direction by James Hogan. Paramount.
Because of his overzealousness to solve a crime, Drummond narrowly escapes destruction. For about the fifth time he almost marries Phyllis, and again is prevented by an infernal machine perpetually about to go off and blow everyone to bits, which seems strangely ineffectual when it does perform. H. B. Warner, Heather Angel and John Howard are all too capable for this style of picture, employing a combination of manufactured thrills with a thin, near-English brand of humor which seldom “clicks.” Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Only fair Too tense
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THE BEACHCOMBER ❖ O
Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton. From the story, "Vessel of Wrath," by W. Somerset Maugham. Written for the screen by Bartlett Cormack. Direction by Erich Pommer. May Flower Pictures-Paramount.
Here is an extremely interesting psychological study of four white persons living
alone among natives on an island in the Dutch East Indies, who are amazing contrasts in temperament, inheritance and ideals. The Controleur (Robert Newman) is a Dutchman, educated in England, a man of keen and human understanding who is bored and lonely in his isolated position. Two are English missionaries, the Reverend Jones (Tyrone Guthrie), a fanatic zealot, intense and ascetic, and his dull, repressed sister (Elsa Lancaster), who is bitterly intolerant and incapable of understanding human frailties. The fourth is The Beachcomber (Charles Laughton), son of an English vicar, now a remittance man, an easygoing hedonist, thoroughly disreputable, and representing all that the Reverend Jones and his sister fear and detest. The lonely Controleur finds in Ginger Ted his only companionship, but the man’s refusal to conform to decency makes him an intolerable problem. The story of the relationships of the four and the ultimate crisis which arises is unusual and intellectually arresting. Its sophistication is handled with tact and simplicity, and the sardonic ending is a masterpiece.
The cast is superb, and the combination of Erich Pommer and Charles Laughton is