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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS
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MOTION * PICTURE * REVIEWS
Published monthly by
THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB
LOS ANGELES BRANCH
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
Mrs. Palmer Cook, Gen’l Co-Chairman Mrs. Laura O. Vruwink, Gen’l Co-Chairman Mrs. Chester A. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. Francis Poyas, Subscription Chairman Cooperating Branches
Long Beach San Gabriel Valley Glendale Santa Monica Whittier
EDITORS
Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. George Ryall Mrs. Laura O. Vruwink Address all communications to
The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California
10c P*r Copy ■ $1.00 Per Year
Vol. XV APRIL, 1940 No. 4
Copyright 1940 by Women's University Club of Los Angeles
FEATURE FILMS
AND ONE WAS BEAUTIFUL O O
Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir,
Billie Burke. Based on the story by Alice
Duer Miller. Screen play by Harry Clork.
Direction by Robert B. Sinclair. M. G. M.
This is an interesting study in contrast of character between two sisters: Helen who uses her angelic countenance to obtain selfish ends and to escape from unpleasant duties; and Kate who is not so beautiful of face but has qualities of strength and fairness and fine appreciation of the real things of life. There is rivalry between them for the love of a young man who is forced to pay for a serious accident caused by the selfish sister. The story is slightly forced, which might be remedied by skilful cutting, but the directing is unusually good, and the film becomes a very human portrayal due to the fine acting of Laraine Day and Jean Muir. Billie Burke adds a charming note as the mother of the two girls.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Possibly Too mature
BEYOND TOMORROW O O
Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Chas. Winninger, Alex Melesh, Maria Ouspenskaya, Helen Vinson, Rod LaRocque, James Houston, Jean Lawrence. Direction by A. Edward Sutherland. Screen play by Adele Comandini, from an original story by Mildred Cram and Adele Camandini. Academy Productions. RKO release.
“Beyond Tomorrow” is added to the list of recent pictures dealing with the supernatural and is probably the least successful of the group. If the standard set by the first part of the picture had been maintained, it might have been a remarkable film, since the mood for spiritual adventure is subtly maintained and all episodes are beautifully handled, but somewhere in midfield it drifts into hack writing with involved and unconvincing development of plot, and the spirits do not always succeed in remaining ghostly. The three old men of the tale, killed in an airplane accident, later return to earth to become guardian ghosts of a young couple whose affairs