Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1932)

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The First and Best Talkie Reviews! CHARLIE CHAN'S chanceFox NO ONE MAN— Paramount SLOW motion where swift is needed is the trouble with this latest offering of Charlie Chan. Detective stories should get away to a snappy start and keep your mind on the run. This lets you walk. However, if you're a detective fan you'll want to watch that excellent actor, Warner Oland, as the famous Earl Derr Biggers sleuth, get his criminal. There's a grand cast to help you enjoy it. THIS is a lavish production of a dull, slow moving story, all about a girl who is bent on marrying three times. The players, including Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez and Paul Lukas, more than make up for a weak plot with gay, sparkling performances, while excellent dialogue, sumptuous clothes and smooth direction make you forget how little action there really is. Nice enough. THIS RECKLESS AGE— Paramount PANAMA FLO— RKO-Pathe YOU saw the silent version of this several years ago under the title, " The Goose Hangs High." Despite the sincere efforts of such stars as Richard Bennett, Frances Starr, Charles Rogers, Frances Dee and Peggy Shannon, this just doesn't click. Perhaps the passing of the jazz age has left us a little cold to the pranks of thoughtless youth and sacrificing parents. Charles Ruggles is a bright spot. SITUATIONS that are different and should have been entertaining somehow go haywire in this potpourri of a New York speakeasy, a Panama honky-tonk and the South American jungle. Neither Helen Twelvetrees, as lovely as ever, nor Charles Bickford, can rise above the inconsistencies of the characters and the trite dialogue. Players as capable as Twelvetrees, Bickford and Robert Armstrong deserve meatier stuff. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW— Paramount SKY DEVILS —United Artists ANOTHER conversational stage play and not a "moving" picture! With the exception of a few scenes, Ruth Chatterton is not the lovely, wistful Ruth you know so well. She plays the role of a woman who is frustrated in her desire for motherhood. Paul Lukas, as the Viennese doctor, is superb. And Robert Ames in this, his final picture, gave the best work of his long career. IT'S been done before ■ — making a comedy of life in the trenches. You've even seen some of the gags! But they're done so well with new faces that even the old ones bring laughs. A good hour and a half of giggles, and a look at some great air stuff is our promise for this one. William Boyd, George Cooper and Spencer Tracy are capably humorous. [ ADDITIONAL REVIEWS ON PAGE 107 ] 51