Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1933)

What the Audience Thinks CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 Ah, how they're blushing — and chuckling — as this gay siren does her stuff! From all signs, Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" is going to launch many an argument — virtue vs. fun — during the season. For example, what's your idea of the work she's putting on Cary Grant? It seems that the public is falling for this Dietrich male attire fad. Most of the smart women's shops here are featuring suits with trousers as well as skirts. But need it be that men's garters and suspenders sing the accompaniment? It must be remembered that Marlene Dietrich is an actress — always dramatizing herself, striving for something new and outstanding. The average woman has no excuse for this. Jack Henry, Hollywood, Calif. Marlene should be sued for disrupting home life, parading in masculine attire! Will Pop foam at the mouth when he tries to get into a strange pair of pants in his closet? I won't be able to tell the boy friend from my old maid aunt, who insists upon "Marlegging" in her latest "Dashabout, Dandy," which comes, mind you, with an extra pair of trousers! Berxice C. Bowxe, San Francisco, Calif. You may think I'm mad — but I'd love to see Marlene Dietrich with Chevalier! And would that be a big box-office draw! Jerry Steele, London, England ENTER "ANIMAL KINGDOM"! Will you please page the High Potentate of RKO-Radio and extend to him my vote of thanks for at last giving one of the screen's most talented actresses, a long deserved break? I refer to Ann Harding and her superb pcr No wonder our readers are still voicing appreciation of Wallace Beery's work in "Flesh" — when you sense the gripping spirit of the piece, as shown here. Isn't Wallace just the trusting palooka Pclikai was — and Karen Morley haunted, exactly as she should be? formancc in that splendid picture, "The Animal Kingdom." A finer team of artists isn't to be found in all Hollywood than Ann Harding and Leslie Howard. Artists of the same calibre, their combined efforts produce pictures that will long be remembered. Hazel D. Behr, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Leslie Howard amazes us more in every movie he is in! No two movies could be more unlike than "Smilin' Through" and "The Animal Kingdom," yet Mr. Howard turns in A-l performances in both. Who says he isn't the most versatile on the screen? Myrna Loy should certainly come in for a large part of the honors, for in spite of the fact that it is Leslie Howard's and Ann Harding's picture, she made her part stand out. Boemoxt Moss, Newport, R. I. I have just seen Ann Harding in "The Animal Kingdom" and feel she is the real aristocrat of stage and screen. Dorothy Alber, Indianapolis, Ind. WHY, GRANDPA! Am I laughing and am I cheering! I've just seen Mae West in "She Done Him Wrong." She's something rare, so heaven preserve her — rarities are so few nowadays in the movies. While I was gazing upon Mae's buxom curves, some woman sitting in back of me said to her neighbor, "Why that's positively indecent!" I turned around and gave her the meanest look I could muster. My granddaddy said that scenes like those in Mae's picture were absolutely true to life, and I guess he should know. After watching our Garbo-Dietrich-Bankhead menaces slither through this and that, Mae is positively, naughtily refreshing. Anita Cahoon, Huntington Park, Calif. "FAREWELL TO ARMS" When T went to see Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper in "A Farewell to Arms," I was prepared to behold something fine. But I didn't see a motion picture, for I really met two people — a young army officer and a war nurse, who loved each other madly. And my cheeks were wet with tears when I beheld the soldier, pitifully, numbly, in his tragic sorrow, hold the nurse closely in his arms, while she slipped away to "peace." Yes, I must have really met these people, and I saw the woman die, after I, too, had learned to love her. Such realism is art! Can't we meet more real people in the movies? Motes Dille, Kansas City, Mo. I would like to tell you what that beautiful picture, "A Farewell to Arms" did for me. My husband and I have been married for nearly two years, but lately we have come to quarrel. Finally last Sunday we went to see "Farewell to Arms." Before the picture was half over it had brought back to me the vivid memory of our own whirlwind courtship and the great love we had known. Towards the end of the picture, when my undemonstrative husband's hand crept over to hold mine, I knew that he was as ashamed as I of what we had been doing to our love. That heartrending death scene made us both realize what a dreadful thing the other's death would be. I wish I could personally thank all those who made "A Farewell to Arms" for their [ please turn to page 12 ] 10