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for May 19 3 1
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Critic Selects the Most Important Screenplays of the Month
Ten Best Portrayals of the Month:
Harry Myers in "City Lights" Charlie Chaplin in "City Lights" Marlene Dietrich in "Dishonored" Ann Harding in "East Lynne" Clive Brook in "East Lynne" Edwina Booth in "Trader Horn" Joan Crawford in "Dance, Fools, Dance' John Gilbert in "Gentleman's Fate"
Helen Twelvetrees in "Millie" George Bancroft in "Scandal Sheet"
Trader Horn
Metro Goldwyn -Mayer
THIS is a "special" — a combination adventure film and romantic melodrama that will fascinate you. There's excitement in practically every scene. And while you'll leave the theatre feeling as if you personally had accompanied the Metro expedition to brightest Africa and had fought off lions, elephants, and juju men, you'll also feel you've had your money's worth. Speaking of money — a million went into the filming of this picture. Thrills in native sets are costly, and most of "Trader Horn" is authentic. Harry Carey is the intrepid explorer who helps rescue the beautiful "white goddess" of a savage tribe. Edwina Booth as said goddess is gorgeous. She has the part of a Hollywood blonde's lifetime.
Harry Carey, Duncan Renaldo, and Edwina Booth in the African thriller, "Trader Horn."
Dishonored
Paramount
THE magic of Marlene Dietrich, and nothing else, unless you count beautiful camera angles, lifts this film into our feature class. Marlene is enough — which is why she should have better material. When her lady spy of this story falls in love with the stalwart enemy, and after considerable footage make the Supreme Sacrifice, not even the marvellous Marlene can sway us to the proper pathos. The same formula — foreign setting, exotic stellar role, luscious Von Sternberg photography, worked in "Morocco"; but this time it's not so potent. You won't want to miss Marlene no matter what she does; and she's lovely here, with more glamor than ever. Victor McLaglen is all right, I suppose.
The magic of Marlene Dietrich makes "Dishonored' of interest. With Victor McLaglen.
Rango
Paramount
A REAL novelty. Everybody will be talking about it. The actors are monkeys, apes, tigers, buffalo, panthers, and two natives of Sumatra, where • Ernest B. Schoedsack, who also made "Chang" and "Grass," photographed this picture. "Rango" parallels the adventures of a native and his son, and Tua, an elderly ape, and his little boy, Rango — the most engaging discovery of the month. This little ape's antics will convulse you. The two humans and the two apes have a common enemy, the tiger. The big fight — you knew there would be one — is between a water buffalo and a tiger, and it is a thriller. See this — and borrow all the small boys of the neighborhood and take them along. They will love it.
'Rango," photographed in Sumatra by Ernest Schoedsack, is a real screen novelty.