Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

What the Audience Thinks [ COXTIN'LED FROM PAGE 11] Everybody's begging for more laughs! Well, "Too Much Harmony" will shoo the blues away — with Bing Crosby and Oakie, chief shooers, aided by Judith Allen, Skeets Gallagher and Harry Green magazine on to someone who awaits it as eagerly as I. Mrs. E. J. Harris. Atlanta, Ga. MEN OF THE FOREST Being in the Civilian Conservation Corps, we don't get many chances to get to a movie. Here in the forests we are at least ten miles away from the nearest movie house. We can't get to a movie during the week, but on Saturday nights the gang collects and we start walking. With the anticipation of a good picture, we don't mind the twenty-mile walk there and back. Without this weekly visit to a movie. I imagine camp life would be pretty dull. The cinema world has some loyal supporters in us Forest Workers. M. L. Lengel, Salisbury, Pa. SICK (V SLAPSTICK I'm not what they call an ardent movie follower, but I can say I certainly enjoy pictures such as "Be Mine Tonight," "The LittleGiant," with laughs galore, "The White Sis ter," and delightful extravaganzas such as "Gold Diggers of 1933." But somehow these are a bit spoiled when you've got to sit through one of those comedies in which the "comedians" still throw pies and get tangled up in macaroni. Are there moviegoers who laugh at and enjoy these? I'd really like to know. R. M. Stanton, Corona, Calif. MOVIES AND REPEAL \ slap at prohibition, and an urge to remember the part the movies played in the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, wins first prize in your reader's department. I, for one, deplore the part the movies have played in the prohibition question, especially in the minds of our younger generation While I know that prohibition isn't what it ts should be. we will discover upon its repeal that it had its good points too. Its check, slight as many claimed it is, is far better than no check at all. And when the wet tide sweeps over this country, remember then that the movies helped to remove the barriers prohibition had erected to check the flow of alcohol. No. I cannot feel proud of the part the screen has played in helping to bring back liquor. Mrs. R. W. Carr, Parkersburg, W. Va. HILL BILLIES. TOO In my state, there are many isolated towns and villages in the mountains. For the people in these places, the ablest writers, famous artists and experienced actors toil. Beauty and talent and fashion are brought to their doors, however remote. Through the movies. All honor to the industry that brings such happine>s to those who, without it, would find life so much harder to endure. Hi ssrE Armstrong, Louisville. K\. REFORMING MOTHER Last night I took my mother to a motion picture. I practically had to use forceful measures to get her there. My mother is one of those people who thinks spending money (thirty cents) to see a show is outrageous, when you might use it for something needy. Well, a good show is what she needed The picture was "No Man of Her Own." with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. It was a line movie with plenty of laughs, and it converted my mother to the movies. She thoroughly enjoyed it and said to me later, "I want to go again ! " Mildred Card. Merced, Calif. SVD BUT LOGICAL After having seen "Stranger's Return," 1 couldn't refrain from writing my praise of this excellent movie [diked, in particular. th< ing of the picture, where the two lovers bravely part, each on a separate journey. It is true that there is a bit of heart-ache, but it is a dramatic, logical ending as sincere and true as life itself. Why do the producers so often feed the public with obstacle-avoiding, automatic endings, which are so unconvincing, so wrong that we fairly ache to see a story which conforms to truth and real art? May Tenenbatjm, Chicago, 111. CLARK AND JEAN Clark Gable and Jean Harlow make a great pair. Here's to them! "Hold Your Man" is an exceptional picture. A vivid, colorful romance. and a relief from the humdrum of every day life Jane Grey, Salt Lake City. Utah TEN PENNY PEEP SHOW "Hold Your Man" belongs to the old-fashioned, ten-cent peep shows. Like those shows, which promised so much before you looked, it is dull, common and vicious. The reformatory i false in every note and the Head crowned with thorns, in the chapel scene, will be resented. With this picture, the industry which has shown such vast improvement in the past year, has lost much that it gained. Mum Hi wn-ii, Harrisburg, IVnna. GOOD M VWKKS Thank heaven for "The Warrior's Husband!" Just when the country needed a laugh, this picture tickled the funny bones of a tearv nation. And how that Manners boy can pull your heart-strings! MARGAR] in: CHASE, Beverly Hills, Calif. PEACEMAKER The only thing to regret after seeing such a marvelous picture as "The Eagle and the Hawk," is that it wasn't shown before the Geneva Conference. Margarettj Ki. n \ ••'>-., .\ K in-.t Cit v. Kans.