The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

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Just Plain John The write-up, "Just Plain John Boles," in the May number of New Movie is keen. I enjoyed it tremendously, and also the two portraits of Mr. Boles are certainly delightfully interesting. Thanks very much for both. I wish he would sing more. Please give us another story written by Elsie Janis, very soon. It is always interesting and very refreshing to read her articles — in my opinion. New Movie is really interesting from cover to cover. — Lillian Musgrave, 2700 North Vincent Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Elsie is with us every month, Lillian. Thank you for the kind words. From Ireland This is just a few words of appreciation from the "ould country" for the wonderful pictures Hollywood has been turning out lately. I may safely say that no city in the world has a more devoted film-going public than this Dublin of ours; but a while back we had a tremendous shortage of American films over here, owing to the vulgar nature of most of them. (We have a very sensible censor here.) However, as Hollywood has become normal again, we are having some of the finest masterpieces in talking pictures that have ever been (or ever will be) created, and we are eagerly looking forward to more. So here's hoping Hollywood will keep on with the good work. — Miss E. Ross, 13 Leinster St., East, Dublin, N. E. 6, Ireland. You'll be delighted to know, Miss Ross, that the picture people are drawing some of their stories from famous Irish authors, too. Such an example is Liam O 'Flaherty's "The Informer," which you will see soon. Sensible Rules May I recommend five rules to filmgoers, which I have used with very great benefit and increased enjoyment of the cinema? First: Never visit the cinema just to kill time. If there is no film you must see, stay away, and save your time and money for a bumper week. Second: Go to the pictures alone, when possible. The distraction of a companion prevents you from soaking yourself in a film's atmosphere. Third: Read as many reviews as possible, but always use your own judgment. Dig out the facts of the picture. What is bilge to the critic may be firstrate entertainment to you. Fourth: If you can't make up your mind about a film from the reviews, study the still pictures in the cinema show-cases or the film magazines. They are a great help in estimating a film's quality. Fifth: Above all, take film-going seriously and with restraint. Those who don't find out just what they want in pictures can look forward to disappointment.— Wiley P. Ballard, Jr., 208 North Caldwell Street, Charlotte, N. C. And thanks for giving the English You Tell Us {Continued from page 48) language a new word, Wiley. "Filmgoing" is good. We'll enjoy using it. Comedy Relief No doubt the makers of pictures strive to a certain extent to introduce comedy relief that will prove appealingly amusing, but it does seem to me that they must not have a full realization of the vital importance of this angle or we would see more evidences of it in current offerings. Many supposed-to-be funny scenes have an air of "here's a good spot to relieve the dramatic tension," and then we see a player or two very palpably making an effort to be funny. And all we get is a pain. Of course, I don't mean to imply that this is true of all pictures. Indeed, no, for in some of them the thread of comedy relief is so sparkling and truly amusing that word goes forth that So-and-So "stole" the picture or "saved" it. My point is that many a picture has proved great box office for no other reason than that the comedy relief in it was priceless, and that on the other hand, many a great picture — from the angle of real dramatic portrayal — has been ruined by crude interpolation of comedy relief. — Mabel Kramer, 90S Lydia Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Critics have long pointed this out, Mabel, and the better producers and directors are at last beginning to take heed. Naturalness Many thanks to Maude Cheatham for her clever article "Shopping with Joan." Not that Joan Crawford is a special favorite of mine, although I've always admired her very much, but because Miss Cheatham has given us an interesting glimpse into the everyday life of a very busy actress. I think most of us movie-goers become so used to seeing the stars in elaborate settings and many changing roles that we think of them as separate beings entirely. They seem so far away from the everyday naturalness that surrounds us, that we forget they're "just folks" in spite of the glamour and publicity we associate them with. Miss Cheatham's article shows clearly that Joan Crawford is a very real person, and most of us will enjoy her pictures all the more, after knowing she's really a kind-hearted, thoughtful young woman underneath the "screen star" exterior.— Mrs. Doris G. Nelson, 26 W. Harmony Street, Penns Grove, New Jersey. This is the note we try to hit, Mrs. Nelson — to take you into the stars' everyday lives. You encourage us. A Suggestion If Ann Harding's new film, "Enchanted April," is taken from the novel of the same name, I hope there will also be an adaptation of "The Caravaners," a still more hilarious story by the same author. I burn to see Frank Morgan play the amorous old cuckoo, "Baron von Otringel," whose stilted pomposity and complacent narrowness make him the paragon of stuffed shirts and one of the funniest characters in fiction! The whole book is charming light entertainment, and would screen perfectly. —Barbara Fletcher, Flat 4, 205 Dickson Road, Blackpool, Lancaster, England. We hope a studio will take note of your valuable hint, Barbara. Eleven I am a girl of eleven years and I like the movies very much. When I get big I would like to be an actress. 1 have taken the leading parts in many of the plays that have been given in our school. Now I am working in a play called "Hansel and Gretel." I have the part of "Gretel." Many people have mentioned that I have talent for acting. Some of my favorite stars are Shirley Temple, Clark Gable and James Dann. The stars I like to see together best are James Dunn and Shirley Temple, and Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. If anyone asked me where I would like best to go for a visit, I would say, "Hollywood." I buy your New Movie magazine every month and enjoy it better than any other book or magazine. — Janice Matisse, 525 Bellwood Avenue, Philipse Manor, N. Y. Thank you, Janice, and good luck to you. Old Rum-Hound I am a teacher and I know teachers, and I resent the sorry spectacle May Robson made of herself as the teacher in "Grand Old Girl." It was an insult to the teaching profession. Sloppy sentimentality, the nauseating "sweetness and light" attitude May displayed must have sickened her as well as the audience. Teachers have never been adequately or truthfully presented on the screen. Almost without exception they have been unsympathetically caricatured and ridiculed. They have never been shown for what they are — capable human beings, less painted, plucked, curled and dyed than the rest of the feminine world perhaps, but with the same hopes, fears and desires as their more highly decorated sisters. I hope that May, who has done some fine work as a rough-neck old rumhound, was as disgusted with her namby-pamby role as I was to see her play it. — Mary Irene Woodruff, 26 Monument Square, Charlestown, Mass. // the part was as bad as you say it was, May probably did feel just as you do about it. She's a real person. 72 The New Movie Magazine, August, 1935