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THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET—M-G-M
IF this one doesn't pull your heart-strings taut and leave you a limp and weeping rag, then there's something wrong with you. But it ends well enough, so be sure to see it. It's the old mother love-sacrifice stuff but it makes every other picture of this type look sick.
Helen Hayes, a stage star, does things to your emotions from which you won't recover for quite a spell. Starting the picture as a young girl she goes the downward path for her son's sake and ends up as a pathetic little old hag. It's one of the greatest performances to reach the screen. Lewis Stone and Neil Hamilton are both excellent — but it's Helen's show.
Originally called "Lullaby," this picture has been almost entirely remade with great success. Don't miss it.
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PLATINUM BLONDE— Columbia
HERE'S a picture that will put a broad smile on the exhibitor's face. And you'll go away with a nice glow, feeling that you have been well entertained.
It has just about everything — excellent direction and dialogue, youth and beauty, comedy and enough drama. Robert Williams, as the wise-cracking reporter who falls in love with and marries a platinum blonde society girl, Jean Harlow, is a natural for the part. He finds it impossible to adjust himself to the ways of the "400." So Gallagher, a girl on his paper who has always been in love with him, gets him eventually. Loretta Young's part of Gallagher is small, but she does it well. Louise Closser Hale, Edmund Breese, Walter Catlett and others in the cast are all good. See this.
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*fe THE CUBAN LOVE SONG—M-G-M
WHEN you put Lawrence Tibbett's glorious singing and splendid acting, Lupe Velez' entrancing lovemaking, and Jimmy Durante's darn foolishness all together in one film — you've got a picture. This is the best Tibbett opus since "The Rogue Song," and they'll be starring Durante soon. He's great.
It tells the yarn of a trio of marines — Tibbett, called Terry in the story, Durante and Ernest Torrence — in Cuba. Although Tibbett has a patrician sweetheart in the States, he falls in love with a concentrated bundle of heat named Nenita, a peanut vendor, who is, of course, Lupe. There follows a love sequence that is idyllic in its sweetness — and then comes the war, and the marine goes to battle. Ten years later, married to his American sweetheart, he hears in a cafe the peanut vendor song and it recalls Nenita. In a hilarious jag he finds his ex-buddies and goes back to Cuba — ■ only to discover his Nenita married and mother of three children. But the eldest is named Terry.
How sweetly it's told you won't know until you see it. And when Tibbett sings, you forget you're in a theater. There's no hesitancy in recommending this because it has everything — romance, comedy, music!