Picture-Play Magazine (1933)

WHAT THE FANS THINK No Horror Films for Fay. IN the past few months we have had so many fine films that undoubtedly many fans will overlook an exceptionally meritorious picture which manages to he more entertaining than many of our highly touted specials. 1 refer to "Ann Carver's Profession." The theme is far from new, hut the manner in which the director and the players, especially the star. Fay Wray, bring it to the screen makes it unusually interesting. J went to see "Ann Carver's Profession." not knowing what to expect besides an intelligent, restrained portrayal by a young actress who doesn't find it necessary to adopt a morbid expression or a Garbo slouch to make an impression. Tlie film was novel and unusual and Miss Wray's plea to the jury was a masterpiece of acting. To my way of thinking, it will always he a sad commentary on the intelligence! A of Hollywood producers, that a player of her caliber has been forced to appear in those horror masterpieces, while such puppets as Shearer, Harlow, Dietrich, Sidney, and Stanwyck received star billing. Miss Wray's human qualities and beauty should never he hidden in those gruesome roles. Let them he played by girls who lack her qualities. I C. Wynne. 175 Easl 199th Street. New York ( "it v. Brilliant and Naive. RECENTLY I saw "When Ladies Aleet" and I'm now another of Myrna Loy's innumerable fans. Some one certainly used the old gray matter when they took the Loy girl out of half-breed parts and gave her a chance to act like a white woman. Witness "The Animal Kingdom." "The Barbarian." and now "When Ladies Meet." They were most assuredly hits, and Miss Loy was the outstanding actress in all three. In the role of Mary, she was so brilliant, charming, and at the same time naive, that it was small wonder Bob Montgomery was taken in hook, line, and sinker. Long may we feast our eyes upon her fair countenance' and divine form ! And now for Alice Brady, the most refreshing surprise in years. With Zasu Pitts's gestures, but with dialogue that would make the Puritanical Pitts blush, this trouper who once warmed the hearts of the audience as a demure heroine is now howling them over as "an intelligent fool." Although variety is undoubtedly the spice of life, our plea to the powers-that-he is. "Please give Miss Brady more roles similar to the one she had in 'When Ladies Meet,' " and at the same time we beg, "Alice, won't you please stay in pictures because we think you're great!" Alice Lorexz. 7043 Bryn Mawr, Chicago, Illinois. ev Lucille, the Floor-show Girl. IN 1922 Ernie Young's revue was at the Oriole Terrace in Detroit. Every one who recalls that floor show will remember that one of the chorus, Lucille LeSueur, got a chance to go to Hollywood. Since then, by publicity or her own efforts — -who shall say? — she has become the popular Joan Crawford of movie fame. J've just read that Joan Crawford gives her age as J. C. Wynne takes the producers to task for hiding Fay Wray's human qualities in horror roles. twenty-live. Now, Ernie Young's revue played in Detroit with Joan in the chorus eleven years ago. Does she believe that she has the public fooled into thinking she was fourteen years old at that time? I can rememhev her clearly, and she was no immature child in 1922, but a plump, rather hard-looking chorus girl and not particularly nicelooking at that. Lucille LeSueur was at least twenty then. Why doesn't she he honest and admit her age ? Jane Weimer. Detroit. Cont. on p. 10 Alice Brady is the most refreshing surprise in years to Alice Lorenz.