The New Movie Magazine (Jul-Dec 1934)

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Then, with Warren William safely installed in the role, Mr. Stahl attempted to instruct an old-time butler in the super-fine art of buttling, with the result that the offended gentleman nearly wrapped a broiled halibut around our venerable director's neck. Now, with everything down to a comparative simmer, we can give you the low-down on "Imitation of Life." Claudette Colbert, a widow with a small daughter, ties up with Louise Beavers, a colored mammy, and together they set up a flap-jack and maple syrup shoppe. When they feed the starving Ned Sparks a triple order of the tasty wheat cakes he promotes the idea _ of boxing the flour and sellkig it in job lots. At the same time, he appoints himself general manager, and, before many years have passed, their income tax report looks like a poor man's automobile license plate! Grown to charming young womanhood, Claudette's daughter, Rochelle Hudson, returns from finishing school and proceeds to fall head-over-heels in love with her mother's prospective husband, Warren William. Rather than complicate matters, Claudette tells Warren that it would be too cruel to torture the child by going ahead with their marriage. Rather, she will sacrifice her own happiness and take Rochelle away to forget. Paralleling their story, we find Miss Beavers grieving over the fact that her own daughter prefers to denounce her race and mix with the white folks as one of them. Turning a deaf ear to her mother's pleas, the girl leaves, and, a short time later, the colored woman dies of a broken heart. Not a happy story, but gripping and powerful, as are all of Fannie Hurst's novels. > E4.I1 IS soui made good by a • good woman's love. „ „__< Once more, he dies at Paramount , , n . , ' , . . , the finish, relinquishing his love to a better man than he is. Raft is a half-caste Chinese who manages a cafe in London's Limehouse district and picks up a little change on the side by smuggling silk up the river, come a dark, foggy night. Ann May Wong, an Oriental dancer, is Georgie's girl friend up until sweet little Jean Parker, step-daughter of Montague Love, skids into his life while trying to escape from a pursuing sheriff. Love is George's rival in the silksmuggling racket, and when he dis covers that Jean has been camping out in Raft's cafe, he whips her within an inch of her life. To get even, Raft slips Montague a golden key that dangles from his watch chain, instructing the childbeater to meet him at his apartment later in the evening. While Raft and Miss Wong are dancing in the cafe, Love is mysteriously knifed in Raft's apartment. Which shows you what to expect any time the key is missing from George's watch chain. Jean meets and falls in love with Kent Taylor. Realizing what it will mean to Kent if Raft discovers the romance, she tries to discourage him. But, Taylor follows her into the lion's den and dares George to do anything about it. Pretending to be friendly, George slips Kent the fateful key, instructing him to meet Jean at the apartment on the following night. All unsuspecting, Jean attends a Chinese celebration with the man she fears, and, not until she discovers the key missing from Raft's watch chain does she realize the evil plot against the man she loves. Realizing, at last, that Jean is not for him, Raft makes a magnificent gesture, rushes her back to the side of the man she loves, and meets his death in the rain of machine-gun bullets of the rival smugglers. The day we visited the set, Raft's eyes were undergoing some brutal treatment at the hands of the make-up artists. In fact, the process was so extreme that Georgie's doctor forbade the use of it for more than two days at a time. "I don't mind a whole lot," George told us when we attempted to sympathize. "Of course, I know of a few things that are more enjoyable, but . . . it's such a swell part that I really don't mind the discomfort. Well, that is . . . not too much . . . !" BY YOUR LEAVE HERE, to our way of thinking, is the real "Babbitt" story: typical suburnice home, Frank Morgan is banite; a good job, loving wife, and an all-around placid existence. In spite of a charming missus like Genevieve Tobin, Frank is just at the age when he fears that life has slipped one over on him. Sensible enough to be worried over such silly symptoms, Frank talks it over with Genevieve and they decide to go on a marital vacation, with no questions asked. The first day, Frank tries to date up his secretary, Lona Andre. Lona is perfectly willing, providing her husband, Charles Ray, can go along. Taking up with a strange drunk, who speaks knowingly of chorus gals and stuff, Frank treks along, thinking surely he's about to meet up with what he's looking for in the way of diversion. But, his bibulous pal is so tight that he couldn't dial a telephone num The New Movie Magazine, December, 19 3 U