Picturegoer (Jan-Apr 1935)

PICTUREGOER Weekly January 26, 1935 There Goes Susie. Pathe. British. "A." Directed by John Stafford aiid Victor Hanbury. " Featuring Gene Gerrard, Wendy Barrie, and Zelma O'Neal. Fair romantic musical comedy with some good tunes and attractive settings. There's Always To-morrow. Universal. American. "A." Directed by Edward Sloan. Featuring Binnie Barnes, Frank Morgan and Lois Wilson. Domestic drama which approaches the eternal triangle theme from a sympathetic angle and provides good entertainment. The acting generally is on a high level. Third Cine, The. Fox. British. "A." Directed by Albert Parlier. Featuring Basil Sydney, Molly Lament. Highly complicated and improbable murder mystery thriller staged in London with an Oriental atmosphere. Things Are LoolUng Up. G.B. British. Directed by Albert de Courville. Featuring Cicely Courtneidge. Schoolgirl comedy. Thirty-nine Steps. G.B. British. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Featuring Robert Donat. John Buchan's spvthriller. 365 Nights in Hollywood. Fox. .American. " A." Directed by George Marshall. Featuring James Dunn, and Altce Faye. Conventional musical comedy which attempts to debunk bogus dramatic schools. Individual •sequences are amusing, but as a whole it is rather scrappy. Three Muslieteers, The. Radio. .\merican. Dumas' story with Francis Ixderer in leading role. Three Wise Gays. M.-G.-M. American. From the record-breaking stage play by Austin Strong and produced by Phil Goklstone. Thunder in the Night. Fox. Araerii-an. Directed by Irving Cummings. Featuring Ketti Gallian and Warner Baxter. To Be a Lady. Paramount. British. " A." Directed by George King. Featuring Dorothy Bouchier and Charles Cullam. From a story by C. A. Nicholson. To-morrow's Youth. Pathe. Ameri<:an. Featuring Dickie Moore, Martha Sleeper, and John Miljan. Too Many Millions. Warner. British. Directed by Harold Young. Featuring Betty Compton and John Garrick. Comedy. Top Hat. Radio. .American. Directed l>y .Mark Sandrich. Featuring Fred .^staire and Ginger Rogers. Musical with score by Irving IJerlin. Town Talk. M.-G.-.M. .-American. Co-starring Clark Gable and Constance IJennett, and directed by Robert Z. I -eonard. Trail Beyond, The. Pathe. .American. " U." Directed by R. X. Bradbury, [•"eaturing John Wayne, Noah Beery, iun. Actionful if ingenuous Western vith picturesque backgrounds. ExcelIfut for juveniles. Transatlantic Merry-ground, The. .American. " A." Directed by Ben Stolofl. Featuring Gene Ravmond, .Vancy Carrol), Jack Bennv, and Sydney Howard. Grand Hotel theme set to music and put on board ship. Crime, romance, music, humour, and spectacle .ire expertly blended into a good entertainment. Triple Trouble. Radio, .'\merican. Directed by George Stevens. Featuring Wheeler and Woolsey. Comedy. Triumph ot Sherlock Holmes, The. ti.B. British. Directed by Leslie Hiscott. Featuring Arthur Wontner. .\nother Conan Doyle classic brought to the screen with the world's most < onviiicing Sherlock Holmes. 58 Tunnel, The. G.B. British. Directed by Lothar Mendes. Featuring Conrad Veidt. Filmic glimpse into the future. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. M.-G.-M. American. Based on Jules Verne's immortal novel. Produced by Philip Goldstone. Two Heads on a Pillow. Wardour. American. Directed by William Nigh. Featuring Neil Hamilton, Miriam Jordan, and Hardie Albright. Comedydrama dealing with a typical young couple. Urgent Call. Columbia. American. " U." Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Featuring John Mack Brown and Sally Blane. Conventional gangster melodrama. West Point of the Air. M.-G.-M. American. Directed by Richard Rosson. Featuring Wallace Beery and Robert Young. Thrilling story of the hazards and loves of young flying cadets. What Every Woman Knows. M.-G.-M. American. " U." Directed by Gregory La Cava. Featuring Helen Hayes and Brian Aheme. Competent and modernised version of Sir James Barrie's play, notable mainly for the good acting of Helen Hayes. Definitely a conversation piece. What Happened Then. Wardour. British. " A." Directed by Walter Summers. Featuring Robert Bird, Lorna Storm, and Francis L. Sullivan. Sound murder drama, well staged trial scene and effective characterisation. Wicked Woman. M.-G.-M. American. "A." Directed by Charles Brabin. Featuring Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford. Fine acting by ] German star in her first American talkie. A simple sacrifical mother-love story, with convincing atmosphere, but a melodramatic climax. ' Widow's Might. Warner Bros. British. Directed by Cyril Gardner. ' Featuring Laura La Plante, Barry^ Clifton, and Yvonne Arnaud. Laura la Plante and Yvonne Arnaud as merry widows in a flirtatious comedy. Wife Versus Secretary. M.-G.-M. • American. An adaptation of Faith ' Baldwin's novel with William Powell, .j Jean Harlow and Myma Loy. Wings in the Dark. Paramount. ' American. Directed by James Flood. | Starring Cary Grant and Myma Loy. ■■ Drama. ; Wishes. Pathe. British. " U." j Directed by W. P. KeUino. Featuring : Wallie and Barry Lupino. Obvious ■! slapstick gags and artless comedy '. extravaganza — suggested bv A IPs Button. ' Within This Present. Universal ; -American. human drama adapted by R. C. Sheriff. Without Children. Wardour. .American. Directed by William Nigh. Fea 1 turing Marguerite Churchill, Bruce j Cabot, Evelyn Brent, and Reginald 1 Denny. Domestic drama. J i Womanhood. Butcher. British. "A." 1 Directed by Harr> Hughes. Featuring ^ Esmond Knight, Eve Grey. Slight j crook melodrama adequatelv produced. ; i Woman of the World. .M.-G.-M. . American. " A." Directed by Robert i Leonard. Featuring Constance Bennett ' and Herbert Marrhall. A bowdlerised > version of Michael Arlen's novel " The ; Green Hat." Connie is good but the « plot is distinctly poor. ^ Woman in Her ThirOts, A. F.N. .American. " A." Directed by Alfred J E. Green. Featuring Aline MacMahon, Paul Kelly, and .^nn Dvorak. Human domestic drama in which Aline Mac " Mahon gives a brilliantly sensitive study of a business woman who seeks ' roman.:e in middle-age. i Wonders ol the Southern Sea. Famous. ^ British. " U." Interesting tour of the Pacific Isles ; quite well compiled. « i World Moves On, The. Fox. Ameri J can. " A." Directed by Frank IJoyd. 1 Featuring Madeleine Carroll, Franchot j Tone. Hollywood's attempt to repeat : Cavalcade. ^ World's Fair. Columbia. .-Vmerican. Directed by Walter Lang. Featuring J Lee Tracy, Sally Filers, and Jimmy j Durante. | You Belong to Me. Paramount. ^ American. " I'." Directed by .Alfred 1 El Werker. Featuring Lee Tracy, Helen ^ .Mack, and David Holt. Very conven , tional back-stage story, the star slow-moving and ingenuous, which gives ' little chance in a big-hearted rolUng stone comedy role. \ Young and BeauUluL A.B.F.D. j ■American. " A." Directed by Joseph \ Santley. Featuring William Haines, j Judith .Allen, and Joseph Cawthom. ^ Conventional Hollywood romantic i comedy with music. .A good expose of | the film capital's publicity methods, ^ but scrappy in plot. j Youth at the Helm. (;.B. British. \ Directed bv Walter Forde. Featuring Jack Hulbert. Youthful Folly. Columbia. British. " A." Directed by .Miles Mander. Featuring Grey Blake, Jane Carr, and ; Mary Lawson. Complicated stor>-, 3 weak in drama, dealing with a poor ^ violinist and a society girl. Ver\' moderate entertainment. \ Vanessa. M.-G.-M. American. Directed by William K. Howard. Featuring Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, and Otto Kruger. An adaptation of Hugh Walpole's novel. Vie de Boheme. (See La £oA«m«) B.I. P. British. Directed by Paul Stein. Featuring Gertrude Laurence and Douglas Fairbanks, jun. Vintage Wine. Julius Hagen Production. Featuring Seymour Hicks. Famous comedian in screen version of his big stage success. Virginia's Husband. Fox. British. " U." Directed by P. Maclean Rogers. Featuring Reginald Gardiner, Dorothy Boyd, and Enid Stamp-Taylor. Unpretentious farce of a marital deception provides suitable entertainment for family audiences. Wagon Wheels. Paramount. American. " U." Directed by Charies Barton. Featuring Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, and Billy Lee. Typical Zane Gray Western, with an exhilarating outdoor atmosphere. Wake Up and Dream. Universal. American. " A." Directed by Kurt Neuman. Featuring Russ Colombo, June Knight, and Roger Pryor. Broad comedy with a touch of romance, dealing with the adventures of a vaudeville act. Very disjointed development, with the late Russ Colombo proving the main attraction for those who like crooning. Way Down East. Fox. American. Featuring Janet Gaynor. A talking version of the famous D. W. Griffith silent masterpiece. Way ot Youth, The. Paramount. British. " A." Directed by Norman Walker. Featuring Irene Vanbrugh and Aileen Marson. Irene Vanbrugh wasted in a very ingenuous and meaningless story. The plot contains no secret and to see through it is merely to endure the obvious. Wedding Night. U.A. American. Featuring Anna Sten and Gary Cooper. Story cf the life of young immigrants in America's tobacco belt. Wednesday's Child. Radio. American. " .A." Directed by John Robertson, featuring Frankie Thomas, Karen Morley, and Edward Arnold. Fine performances by Edward Arnold and twelve-year-old Frankie Thomas in a drama dealing with the reactions of a child to the break-up of her parent's marriage. . Carries the Little Friend story a stage further. We Live Again. U.A. American. " .A." Directed by Reuben Mamoulian. Featuring Anna Sten, Fredric March, and Jane Baxter. Brilliant technical work in Tolstoy's Resurrection resurrected. Mamoulian's melo^: amatic treatment makes the storv se-.?jn more outmoded than it really is. Anna Sten. however, shows to better advantage than in her first Hollywood effort. West of the Divide. Pathe. American. " U." Featuring John Wayne. Just another Western. West of the Peeos. Radio. .American. Directed by Phil Rostii. Featuring Richard Dix and Martha Sleeper. Outdoor romantic drama. What Happened to Harkness. F.N. British. " U." Directed by Milton Rosmer. Featuring James Finlayson, Robert Hale. Transparent mysterycomedy produced in a simple artless manner, which may appeal to the not too sophisticated. What's in a Name? F.N. British. " U." Directed by Ralph Ince. Featuring Carol Goodner and Barry Clifton. Tedious back-stage story with feeble story and clumsy direction. What Price Fame ? Wardour. American. Featuring June Clyde and Frank Albertson. What's Your Racket? Butcher. American. " A." Directed by Fred Guive. Featuring Regis Toomey and j HOLLYWOOD PARADE 1 What is happening in the film j capital ? What is the latest news i about the stars ? What are they i doing in the studios and in their i private liws ? \ Phil Lonergan, who is on the i spot, sends it " Hot from Holly j wood " every week and keeps i " Picturegoer" readers up to date : on the life of filmland. It's another " Picturegoer " I service. Noel Francis. Ingenious, but not too plausible, story of girl's masquerade as burglar in order to trap crooks guilty of crime of which her father has been accused. O.K. for fans who like action. When a Man Sees Red. Universal. American. " U." Directed by Alan James. Featuring Buck Jones, Peggy Campbell. Unconventional and pleasing Western, dealing with the taming of a shrew. Neat comedy, swift action. When Strangers Meet. Wardour. American. " A." Directed by William Christie Cabanne. Featuring Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, and Lucien Littlefield. Quite an ingenious drama of love, treachery and intrigue played against the novel background of a bungalow court. Good acting. White Lies. Columbia. American. Directed by Leo Bulgakov. Featuring F"ay Wray, Walter Connolly, and Victor Jory. White Parade, The. Fox. American. " A." Directed by Irving Cummings. Featuring Loretta Young, John Boles, and Dorothy Wilson. Sincerely and refreshingly different romantic drama that serves to glorify the young ladies in white — the devoted members of the nursing profession. Whither Mankind? (See Hundred Years From Now). lx)ndon Fibns. British. Directed by Cameron Menzies. H. G. Wells makes his debut as a screen writer in a story of the future. Whom the Gods Destroy. Columbia. American. " .A." Directed by Walter Long. Featuring Walter Connolly, Doris Kenyon, and Robert Young. Brilliant character-study by Connolly of a man who is acclaimed a hero when actually he has played a coward's part. It is a strong emotional story finely acted and excellently developed.