The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

On-the-Set Reviews "I'll stay," says the next chap, pushing in a stack. "Me, too." The third man adds his chips to the pile on the table. "Hm-mm-mm" — that's W. C. "'Sorry, boys — I'll have to bump that one stack." And so it goes around. With four aces in his hand. Fields draws one card. It's another ace! What to do about it? Pointing up the hatch, he yells: '"Hey! What's you tryin' to do up there? Kill each other?" And, when the other players turn to see what's going on, he rlips his extra ace over his shoulder and grabs another card from the deck. But, alas! that, too, is an ace. And so it goes, with more chuckles per minute than you can easily handle. Even Eddie Sutherland, the director, gave up trying to control his chuckles, as Fields ad libbed and kept the entire crew in bursts of smothered merriment. It's Booth Tarkington's story of an old-fashioned show boat working its way along the Mississippi and playing onenight stands at every stop. Fields is the captain, and, at one of their stops, the entire company is invited to entertain at the engagement party of Bing Crosby and Gail Patrick. During the course of the evening one of the guests gets excited and challenges Bing to a duel. When Bing declines the honor, Gail orders him out of the house, calling him a coward and other uncomplimentary names. Joan Bennett, Gail's kid sister, follows Bing and tells him that she thinks he did the right thing. "Duels are so silly," she sighs. That night, Bing joins the show-boat company and they steam off down the river, with Fields telling everyone that our pet crooner is a tough guy ... a killer . . . and what-not. Bing doesn't mind at first, but when Joan denounces him he decides he really will get tough! And from there on it's a picnic! With a cast like this and a director like Sutherland, we've got to mention this among the Ten Best for the month. AMBULANCE CALL "White Parade" certainly dragged a lot of good hospital -.. J^ — stories off the shelf, and aren t you glad? Chester Morris, wearing his best bedside manner, takes the lead as head interne in a hospital, and when he operates on a practically dying lad, against the boy's father's wishes, he is unceremoniously fired out of the place, regardless of the fact that he has saved the boy's life. Billie Burke, a wealthy neurotic, has taken quite a shine to Morris and threatens to take her business elsewhere unless Chet is reinstated at once. She also offers to set our hero up in business for himself, and when his best girl, Virginia Bruce, announces her engagement to Robert Taylor, Chefs best friend, he decides to take Miss Burke's offer. But before he can get his forceps, biceps and what-have-you out of the place, a gangster, who is visiting his supposedly dying mother, makes a break for freedom. In blocking the forward pass, Chet is seriously wounded. It looks like curtains, with only one chance in a million that a delicate operation will do the trick. When Taylor sees that Virginia really loves Chet after all, he rolls up his sleeves, Virginia rolls in the gas tank, and Chet is saved for posterity! George Seitz directs this picture, taken from the play, "The Harbour," bv Theodore Reeves. 1(1 IGGLES OF RED GAP If you like to laugh, don't fail to see this one. If you The combination of Mary Boland and Charles Ruggles is funny enough, but, with Charles Laughton and ZaSu Pitts teamed up for romantic interest . . . and Roland Young and Maude Eburne handing out their own particular brand of nonsense . . . and Baby LeRoy tossing monkey-shines into the ensemble . . .? After making a pile of dough in Red Gap, Roland and Ruggles cut for London, determined to go social in a Big Way. Enchanted with Charles Laughton's butling, they offer him more money than he's ever heard of to return to Red Gap and act as official door-opener, weskit-buttoner-upper, and such like. Out in the Golden West, Laughton wearies of the butling business, finding more charm and adventure in dirty bandanas and high-heeled boots. So the austere fellow goes Western with a bang and hilarious consequences. Most of you must have read the book, written by Harry Leon Wilson some years ago? Or, perhaps you saw the earlier screen version? At any rate, we're betting that you'll join me in picking this as another of the month's Ten Best. I MURDERED A MAN For the customers who like the unusual in screen plots, here is a UNIVERSAL unique murder mystery that really isn't a mystery at all. The audience is permitted to watch the fiend perform the dastardly deed and then try and shove the blame onto an innocent bystander. Charles Bickford, a slick attorney, hates Sidney Blackmer to pieces because Sidney is about to marry Helen Vinson, the woman Bickford loves. Having successfully alibied guilty criminals out of the hoose-gow, Bickford figures he can murder his rival, build up one of his famous alibis and get away with it, jury systems being what they are and nothing to worry about if you're smart. So Blackmer dies, and, after sprinkling Helen's personal effects all over the place, Charlie says: "I done it, so help me!" which, of course, leads everyone to believe that he's merely trying to protect the woman in the case. It works like a charm, until Onslow Stevens, another clever lawyer, gets on the case. And how he brings about Bickford's downfall makes a highly interesting picture of this novel story, by Colin Clements and Florence Ryerson. Eddie Laemmle directs with a keen eye to emotional intensity and a cracking good climax. ALL THE This story was KING'S HORSES originally an operetta, Carlo Rocca," by LaurPARAMOUNT ence QJk and Max Giersberg, and it tells the story of a bored and bearded king, who, after relieving himself of his beard, discovers that he is the image of a famous movie star! Probably because of the beard, the queen, Mary Ellis, skips out on her royal mate, Carl Brisson, making it pretty plain that she will not return until there have been a few changes made. With the advent of Brisson, the movie actor, H. R. H. decides he could do with a little vacation, himself. So, installing {Please turn to page 66) FREE Just mail coupon for the most complete book ever written on eye make up. Note also trial offer. A MESSAGE FROM LOUISE ROSS A MAN'S ADVICE TO GIRLS Daring, but sincere — taken from a letter to Louise Ross "This is pretty frank — a girl is a dumb-bell who fails to beautify her eyes. A girl may have lovely features and skin, yet have dull, dreary eyes, with no life, no sparkle. 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