The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

NO TITLE (United Arlists) Charlie Chaplin's new picture is finished, so we're giving you this advance notice, but absolutely nothing is known of the picture itself. They say it's silent, and so is Charlie. CALL OF THE WILD (Twentieth Century) Jack London's thriller of the Gold Rush. Clark Gable and Loretta Young, with Jack Oakie thrown in for good measure. No subtleties. Just plain, out-door he-man adventure. NAUGHTY MARIETTA (M-G M) For addicts of light opera. Victor Herbert's well-remembered, lilting music, as a background for the romancing of Jeanette MacDonold and her handsome new leading man, Nelson Eddy. GO INTO YOUR DANCE (Warners') Not only Ruby Keeler, but hubby Al Jolson as well, in one of the Warner musicals played before a back-drop of hard-bitten gangsters, murder, and footlight atmosphere. FOLIES BERGERE DE PARIS (Twentieth Century) Maurice Chevalier looks like a famous Baron. The Baron, entangled in a business deal, coaxes him to take his place.Complications with the gorgeous Baroness, Merle Oberon. LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY (Fox) This is the picture they made out of a professor's book of health rules. Oddly enough, it's very funny with Sterling Holloway, Slim Summerville and Will Rogers cutting up in a sleepy village. ON-THE-SET REVIEWS From studio showings and private previews we bring you news of the coming films. A glance at this page will help you get your money's worth— By BARBARA BARRY SINCE Max Reinhardt knocked all Hollywood on its good ear with his Bowl presentation of this Shakespeare classic, there have been plenty of skinned knees among ambitious producers who would have liked to be first in putting the Puckish fantasy on the screen. Warner Brothers won the scuffle, and, if Mickey Rooney (one of the up-andcomingest youngsters of all time) makes as good a job of the screen version as he did in the Bowl A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM • WARNERS' well, it should be good. Of course, you must know the tale of the little imp who goes around waving a sprig of asafetida, or something, and changing everyone he meets into something utterly silly and quite foreign to their natural selves? That's about all there is to it, except for the hilarious action which you all will enjoy much more if you get around to see it for yourselves. The cast is something, with James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Ian Hunter, Hugh Herbert, Anita Louise, Victor Jory, Eugene Pallette, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Grant Mitchell, and others, adding to the amusing activity. Jimmy Cagney is giving a grand premiere of his manly knees, and not liking it a little bit. The minute we put foot on the set, Jimmy ducked behind a tree, his ears a flaming red! "Come out!" we insisted. "Don't be that-a way . . . what are knees, anyway?" "My gosh . . ."he wailed. "Can't a guy have any privacy?" "So . . . they knock, eh?" we jibed. "They do not knock!" "Bow-legged, huh?" "Oh, for crying out loud . . . NO!" But, by that time, he'd edged out into the open, and, we're here to state that Cagney under-pinnings are as good as any you'll see on anybody's beach! Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle handle the direction. FOLIES BERGEBE DE PARIS 2©th CENTURY CLEANED up considerably, this French delight, by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, should still be some fun. Maurice Chevalier plays a dual role; a popular impersonator in the "Folies Bergere," and an insolvent Baron, who is, naturally, one of Chevalier's more famous impersonations. Maurice and his partner, Ann Sothern, scrap continually, but you just know it's true love, not running smoothly, as usual. Called away on a secret mission that may serve to recoup his over-drawn bank account, the Baron hires Chevalier to impersonate him, {Please turn to page 65) BARBARA BARRY'S SELECTIONS I — "Folies Bergere" with Chevalier. 2 — "A Midsummer Night's Dream," with James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, and many others. 3 — "Dante's Inferno," with Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Henry Walthall. 4— "Life Begins at Forty," with Will Rogers. 5 — "George White's Scandals," with Lyda Roberti, Jimmy Dunn, Stu Edwin. 6 — "Naughty Marietta," with Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan. 7 — "The Wedding Night," with Anna Sten, Gary Cooper. 8 — "Go Into Your Dance," with Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Helen Morgan. 9 — "Captain Hurricane," with James Barton, Helen Westley, Helen Mack. 10— "Call of the Wild," with Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Loretta Young. 32 The New Movie Magazine, April, 1935