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WHAT TO EXPECT IN
THE NEW FILMS
THE MIGHTY BARNUM
• UNITED ARTISTS
"The Little Minister" was well-known to your father
and mother, with its tale of a girl and a young
parson in old Scotland.
PLENTY doing around the studio lots this month. Ye olde reportere is on the verge of writer's cramp and athlete's foot from trekking hither and yon, making jittery jots on the latest studio activities. Not good, but still ... St. Vitus dance and two broken legs would be worse.
On the "Mighty Barnum" set, we snuck up on a tete-a-tete between Wallace Beery, who plays B a mum , and Joe Schenck, financial backer of the enterprise. Expecting to hear a hefty dissertation on over-head, schedule, and stuff, we put on our long, gray beard, cocked our good ear to starboard, and . . . what did we hear? Nothing any more scandalous than the relative merits of "Rainbow" and "Endeavor" ; and the swell time Joe had at the real Barnum & Bailey circus, feeding peanuts to the elephants!
While waiting for Director Walter Lang to call for "Action !", we wandered across the stage to a set that represented a nineteenth century "general store," with the old pickle barrels, cracker boxes, and all the things so dear to the hearts of anybody's grandpas. It was a grubby looking place, but the property man assured us that the research work on that particular set had been something to fret about, as every prune and pickle must be true to the period.
Rochelle Hudson, Barnum's ward, wandered about the set in long braids and magenta dimity, while Janet Beecher, Barnum's long-suffering wife, stepped out of smart drawing-room roles, long enough to be severe, though still charming, in corkscrew curls and print gingham.
They were shooting the scene where Janet discovers that her no-good husband has taken the $250.00 she gave him for a ticket back home and {Please turn to page 71)
Comedies, tragedies, mysteries, romance, —
how to pick the show you want to see is
always a problem. A glance at New Movie's
list will solve it for you
By BARBARA BARRY
Nancy Carroll, a prizefighter, a
rival, and a crime that might be
committed but isn't, make up the
tricky "Jealousy."
"It's a Gift" offers W. C. Fields with old tricks and new, really funny dialogue, and a story about a Hoboken family making a cross-continental tour in an automobile.
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"Concealment," with Barbara Stanwyck and Warren William, is a tangle of politics and mystery, •vhile (above, right) Steffi Duna and Regis Toomey ~«~ "Girl of the Islands."
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Above: Edward Ellis, Paul Kelly and Edward Arnold in "The President Vanishes."
Below: Claude Rains and Lionel Atwill in a scene from "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head."
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Above: Paul Muni, in "Bordertown," is a Mexican trying to change his nationality.
Francis Lederer is an immigrant, Ginger Rogers is
a chorus-girl with a newsboy brother. "Romance
in Manhattan" is tearful.
The New Movie Magazine, January, 1935