Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

i 6 Photoplay Magazine for November, 1933 WYoi Woo d YV HEN you visit New York enjoy the comforts of an ideal home and still be in the heart of the Motion Picture Art Centre. * Parlor Bedroom and Bath $C00 PER DAY FOR O— ONE OR TWO $125.00 per month. Lessthan the cost of most single rooms. 3 room suites in proportion. Largest single room in New York $3.50 per day. All rooms equipped with combination tub and shower . . . running ice water. Swimming Pool, Gymnasium Solariums free to guests. Write for details. Telegraph reservations (Collect) ENJOY NEW YORK'S COCOANUT GROVE ROOF 56th St. at 7th Ave. New York City • LADY FOR A DAY -Columbia.— Applewoman May Robson thought a society dame by her daughter; a stage crowd throws a party to save the day. Kine fun. (Sepl.) • LADY'S PROFESSION, A— Paramount — Not much plot, but you'll laugh too much to mind. Alison Skipwortb and Roland Young as titled Britishers unwittingly running a spca i May) LAST TRAIL, THE — Fox. — A Zane Grey Western with racketeers instead of rustlers, and speed cops in place of cowboys. The changes don't help it. (Oct.) LAUGHING AT LIFE— Mascot Pictures.— A well-done Richard Harding Davis type of tale about soldier of fortune Victor McLaglen raising cain in a banana republic. (.4 ug.) LIFE IN THE RAW— Fox.— George O'Brien and Claire Trevor in a Western enriched with new ideas. (Oct.) LIFE OF JIMMY DOLAN, THE— WarnersDoug. Fairbanks. Jr., and Loretta Voting in a sweet story with rubber stamp plot about a misled prizefighter. (May) LILLY TURNER— First National.— Inexcusable sex, with Ruth Chatterton going from bad to worse as a side-show performer. Worth avoiding. (July) • LITTLE GIANT, THE— Warners.— Eddie Robinson, reformed gangster, is made a sucker by Helen Vinson. Some grand situations. You'll like this one. (June) LONE AVENGER, THE— World Wide.— The big bank robbery is the burden of this Ken Maynard Western. Voungsters won't be disappointed. (Sept.) • LOOKING FORWARD— M-G-M — This achieves perfection in acting. Lewis Stone and Lionel Barrymore in an old British business hit by depression. (June) LOVE IN MOROCCO— Gaumont British.— Rex I Ingram got fine North African scenery and fighting ' but as romance it's a washout. (June) LUCKY DOG — Universal.— Canine actor Buster turns in a knockout performance, as faithful companion to "out of luck" Chic Sale (cast as a voung man). (July) "M" — Nerofilm. — Based on the Duesseldorff child murders, and not a melodrama. Not for children or emotional adults; English subtitles. (June) MADE ON BROADWAY— M-G-M— Bob Montgomery, Sally Eilers, Madge Evans and Eugene Pallette in a dull one over a Bowery girl. (June) • MAMA LOVES PAPA— Paramount.— Lowly Charlie Ruggles is made park commissioner; involved with tipsy society dame Lilyan Tashman. Great clowning. (Sept.) MAN FROM MONTEREY, THE— Warners.— John Wayne in a historical Western about California when Uncle Sam took possession in '49. Will appeal largely to the youngsters. (July) MAN OF THE FOREST— Paramount.— Far from being a topnotch Western. Randolph Scott. Verna Hillie, Noah Beerv. Good work done by a mountain lion. (Sept.) • MAN WHO DARED, THE— Fox.— Life story of the late Mayor Cermak of Chicago, from an immigrant boy in a coal mine to his assassination at the side of President Roosevelt. Fine cast, Preston Foster in the lead. (Oct.) MAN WHO WON, THE— British International. — A playboy nobleman drags through tedious reels as a depression farmer, (May) MARY STEVENS, M.D.— Warners.— Slow tale of two doctors (Kay Francis, Lyle l.ilhot) who love, have a baby, but won't marry. (Sepl.) • MASQUERADER, THE— Goldwyn-United Artists. Ron,] id ( loll H. in does superbly in the double role of English gentleman and dissolute cousin, whose identity he assumes. (May) • MAYOR OF HELL, THE Warners— Gangster Jimmy Cagney steps into a tough reform school, ami with help of inmate Frankie Darro, makes things hum. Madge Evans. (Aug.) MELODY CRUISE — RKO-Radio. -Playboy Charlie Ruggles has girl trouble on a cruise. ( I music; plot falls apart. (Aug.) MIDNIGHT CLUB— Paramount.— George Raft plays crook to catch chief crook Clive Brook, but falls in love with Helen Vinson, one of the gang. Not as good as the grand cast suggests it should be. (Oct.) MIDNIGHT MARY— M-G-M.— Loretta Young does a better than usual gun moll; she shoots big-shot Ricardo Cortez to save lawyer Franchot Tone for the plot. (A ug.) MIDNIGHT WARNING— Mayfair Pictures— A horribly done horror picture; Claudia Dell, William Boyd and John Harron are unable to save it. (March) MIND READER, THE— First National.— Warren William and Allen Jenkins work the mind-reading, crystal gazing racket on high society. {May) MORGENROT (DAWN).— UFA.— An excellent German film about submarine warfare. English prologue and captions. (Aug.) • MORNING GLORY, THE— RKORadioKatharine Hepburn at her supeib best in a story of a country girl determined to make good on the stage. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan. (Oct.) MURDERS IN THE ZOO — Paramount.— Lionel Atwill kills with a serpent; feeds wifie Kathleen Burke to the crocodiles. Fascinating horror. (May) MUSSOLINI SPEAKS— Columbia.— While II Duce makes an address, "cut ins" show the deeds he mentions. Partisan, but interesting. (June) NARROW CORNER, THE— Warners.— Doug Fairbanks, Jr., in a lugubrious tale of evil passions in the South Seas. Fine acting, fine cast, but a dark brown after-taste. (Aug.) NIGHT AND DAY— Gaumont-British— Mixed music and melodrama, done in leisurely British fashion; the mixture doesn't jell. (Aug.) NO MARRIAGE TIES— RKO-Radio.— Richard Dix as a brilliant sot who makes good in advertising, with Elizabeth Allan clinging to him. Good Dix stuff. (Sept.) • NUISANCE, THE— M-G-M.— (Reviewed under the title "Never Give A Sucker A Break. ') Lee Tracy at his best as a shyster lawyer and ambulance chaser; Frank Morgan adds a magnificent drunken doctor accomplice, until Madge Evans trips them up. Fast, packed with laughs. (July) OBEY THE LAW— Columbia.— Leo Carrillo goes "good boy" as a naturalized barber practicing the Golden Rule. They made him too good. (June) OLIVER TWIST— Monogram.— A strong cast somehow misses the Dickens' flavor. (May) ONE YEAR LATER— Allied.— Melodrama that turns a slow start into a good finish. Mary Brian and Donald Dillaway. (Oct.) OUR BETTERS— RKO-Radio.— Sophisticated (and raw) sexy doings in London high society by Connie Bennett and Violet Kemble-Cooper. (Slay) OUT ALL NIGHT— Universal.— Can't you imagine the fun — Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts honeymooning, with mamma along? (May) OVER THE SEVEN SEAS— William K. Vanderbilt. — Mr. Vanderbilt's films of his journey around the world, gathering marine specimens. Some wonderful color photography. (.4 Hi'.) PAROLE GIRL— Columbia.— An antique "revenge" plot, with Mae Clarke. (May) • PEG O' MY HEART— M-G-M— The old musical favorite, pleasingly done by V Davies, J. Farrell MacDonald. Onslow Stevens. (July) PENAL CODE, THE— Freuler Film.— An exconvict s problems are easier on Regis Toomey than this moth-eaten plot. (May) PERFECT UN DERSTANDING— United Artists.— This talkie talks too much. Gloria Swanson finds she loves hubby in spite of his misdeeds. (May) PHANTOM BROADCVST, THE— Monogram. — Gangster stuff, with Ralph Forbes as the si voice of a radio crooner. Involved plot doesn't help. (June) • PICK UP — Paramount. — Taxi-driver t. Rafl "picks up" Sylvia Sidney, falls in love with her; tangles with a society lady and Sylvia's convict husband. Humanly done; good comedy. (June)