The Law in Her Hands (Warner Bros.) (1936)

Pee 1 Cl THE T AW IN HER HANDS” (Lead Off Story) Comedy Full Of Fun and Thrills Bookedby Strand With Margaret Lindsay and Glenda Farrell teamed as a pair of young women lawyers, “The Law In Her Hands,’ the new First National comedy drama which comes to the............. Theatre OMe cessossestertreteeestest , is gay with fun and vivid with swift and dramatic action. The picture literally starts with a bang when a racketeer hurls a bomb into a restaurant where the two feminine lawyers are being photographed at luncheon by a news cameraman. This starts their career for they squash the gangster’s alibi by producing the photograph which shows him just behind the two girls. Their cleverness catches the attention of the boss racketeer who offers them a fat retainer to handle his business for him. The girls refuse until Warren Hull, who has the role of an assistant district attorney, and the lover of Miss Lindsay, makes the mistake of having her appointed to defend a criminal from whom he already has obtained a confession. Furious at being framed, the woman lawyers first win their case, and then decide to fight tricks with tricks. They accept the offer of the racketeer to handle his cases, and become famous as criminal lawyers, winning cases by tricks, not only clever, but hilariously funny. Lyle Talbot has the part of the boss racketeer who overplays his hand when he poisons milk for babies to enforce his graft and murders witnesses to cover up his tracks. Kidnaped by the gangster when she refuses to handle his case, Miss Lindsay pretends to come to her senses, wins his battle in court, and then in one of the most amazing and thrilling climaxes imaginable, reveals the ruse she had resorted to, and convicts her own client of murder by incontrovertible evidence. Eddie Acuff has the role of a humorously dumb process server for the two lawyers; Al Shean, formerly of Gallagher and Shean, is the restaurateur whose place is bombed by a racketeer, the latter part played by Matty Fain. Dick Purcell is a mugg and others in the cast include Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards, Milt Kibbee, Eddie Shubert, Mabel Colcord and Billy Wayne. William Clemens directed the picture from the screen play by George Bricker and Luci Ward, based on Bricker’s original story. Gang Buster Margaret Lindsay takes the law in her hands and breaks the back of her city’s deadliest gang in “The Law In Her Hands’, First National’s revealing story of crooks, crooked lawyers and attorneys in love, which Opens At the...u.sseorreeees PREGELE ON.o.0..0rccrseeseereeee Mat No. 108—10c They Laugh At Laws Glenda Farrell (left) and Margaret Lindsay (right) two of the prettiest lawyers who ever used their smiles to keep a crook out of jail, and Eddie Acuff, in the role of their process server, provide many thrills and much laughter in “The Law In Her Hands”, the First National hit now at the Coe eeere errr eri iri rt irri rer Er See Theatre. Mat No. 208 20¢ (Opening Day Story) “The Law In Her Hands’ To Open At Strand Today “The Law In Her Hands,” a First National comedy drama combining hilarious laughter and dramatic thrills, comes to the.......... Theatre today, with a _ talented cast headed by Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull and Lyle Talbot. The plot is said to move with rapid fire action from the first sequence when a bomb is dropped in a restaurant by a racketeer to the denoument in which the boss gangster is convicted of poisoning milk for babies and killing witnesses to cover up his tracks. The final court trial is amazingly sensational, a woman lawyer turning her own racketeering client over to justice after he had kidnaped her and forced her to defend him by threats against her life. Other court trials are decidedly humorous. Misunderstandings pile up in the path of the two lovers and opposing lawyers, roles played by Miss Lindsay and Hull, until the amazing climax brings the solution to their knotty problem. Glenda Farrell aids and abets Miss Lindsay in her nefarious, though hilarious, tricks to free their racketeering clients. Chief of the gangsters is Lyle Talbot. Others in the cast include Eddie Acuff, Dick Purcell, Al Shean, Joseph Crehan, Matty Fain, Addison Richards and Eddie Shubert. William Clemens directed. Hull Forms Club Of Old Emcees Warren Hull, leading man opposite Margaret Lindsay in First National new comedy-drama, “The Law In Her Hands”, now showing dtetherscnisenaioans Theatre, has formed an alumni chapter of former masters-of-ceremonies. The members include Hull, a veteran radio “M. C.” having served in that capacity on such chain programs as the Hit Parade and the Open House _ hook-ups. Richard Purcell, who was a radio master-of-ceremonies. Lyle Talbot who had such experience on the stage and in floor shows, Matty Fain, formerly an “M. C.” for New York night clubs, Pat West, who served in that role several years in big-time vaudeville. Sloppy Joe Now Playing Role Of “Mugg” In Film “Sloppy Joe,” known to the sport fraternity of New York, Havana and Hollywood as a liquid restaurateur and fellow of the fisticuffs, has become a motion picture actor. “Sloppy,” whose real monicer is Johnny Keys, is playing the role of a florist who is one of the alibi witnesses for a gangster, in the First National picture “The Law In Her Hands,” which comes to UE; cc .cas saucers PUM CABNEs ONE: sects cases.e Keys, whose Hollywood club was famous for a wall completely covered by the painted autographs of screen-famous play-people, admits that picture acting is just a stop-gap. “’m gonna open another jernt on West Sixth Street near Dempsey’s place,” said Mr. Keys, “and it’s gonna be a swell spahetti layout. Yuh wanta come down and give it a gander when I hold me premiere.” Fighting under his real name years ago, Keys attained no little prominence in the bantam and featherweight divisions. Having gathered a goodly sum from the squared circle, he moved to Havana, Cuba, and there opened a place which gained notoriety under the name of “Sloppy Joe’s Cafe.” Later he came to Hollywood and again used the name for a club-like drink dispensary. “The Law In Her Hands,” from an original story by George Bricker, combines hilarious laughs with thrilling drama. The cast includes Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull, Lyle Talbot, Eddie Acuff, Dick Purcell and Al Shean. William Clemens directed. Margaret Lindsay In Distinctive Suit A spring suit with a new and distinctly different look to it was designed by Orry-Kelly for Margaret Lindsay, who wears it in her latest First National picture, “The Law In Her Hands,” which comes OREN Gre rcsssesceceass PENG AEIO= OMexecasstererssane The short jacket is a Basque type, in gray plaid tweed with three-quarter length bell sleeves cut off diagonally, white buttons down the front, and a small mannish turn-down collar. Still more color contrast is achieved in the skirt, which is black, with a cuff of plaid tweed around the hem. With this suit the actress wears a sailor hat of black straw. (Review ) ‘The Law In Her Hands’ Is Thrilling Comedy Drama Margaret Lindsay And Glenda Farrell Do Fine Work As Team Of Lawyers “The Law In Her Hands”, the First National comedy drama, which was shown at the............... eee theatre yesterday for the first time locally, is a thoroughly entertaining picture, crammed full of thrilling incidents, fast action, hilarious comedy situations and a glamorous romance. The story is woven about the operations of two women lawyers, who after nearly starving to death as honest and upright barristers, decide the whole game is one of tricks and go in for criminal law, becoming rich and _ successful as the “mouthpieces” of a band of racketeers. Goaded into their doubtful practice by an assistant district attorney who attempts to trick them in a case he is prosecuting, in order to show them that law is no place for women, they outwit him in court at every turn by clever and uproariously funny ruses. Margaret Lindsay and Glenda Farrell do exceptionally fine teamwork as the women attorneys, the two acting as foils to each other by their extreme contrast. Miss Lindsay, a dignified brunette, is calm and precise in her work while Miss Farrell, a blonde beauty, is a flippant, wise-cracking chiseler, out for everything she can get by hook or crook. Miss Lindsay does some capable dramatic acting as a serious lawyer defending her clients, while Miss Farrell furnishes no end of hilarity by the tricks she conjures up to win their cases, even going so far as to beat up a client to prove the district attorney had forced him into a false confession. Warren Hull, former radio star, proves that he is as talented an actor as songster. As the assistant prosecutor he plays the romantic role, being the lover of Miss Lindsay. He is a capable leading man. The heavy role of the boss gangster, a cold, sinister villain who does not hesitate to poison babies or put a few bullets into public officials who stand in the way of his rackets, is excellently portrayed by Lyle Talbot. Eddie Acuff does some clever comedy work as a process server for the lawyers. Al Shean, formerly of Gallagher and Shean, When Love And Law Clash Warren Hull Noted radio singing star who portrays a crusading district attorney and the lover of Margaret Lindsay in “The Law In Her Hands”, the First National drama of love and law breakers which opens at the peosennreereese teres LRCGURC <OF ccssssstszsseterseses Mat No. 101—10c Matty Fain, Eddie Shubert and Mabel Colcord also add to the humor of the picture. Others in the cast include Dick Purcell, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards, Milt Kibbee and Billy Fain. William Clemens has done an excellent job of directing. The screen play is by George Bricker and Luci Ward. Kiddie Acuff, Lyle Talbot, (left to right in rear), with Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull and Margaret Lindsay (left to right) in an exciting scene from “The Law In Her Hands”, a First National comedy drama of law, love and laughter coming to the......... eo ee ECGUTCS Oita. sacetersswaca errs Mat No. 202—20c Page Three