Screenland (Jun-Oct 1932)

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for June 19 3 2 73 Buddy Rogers and Lupe Velez, your old friends, aid and abet Bert Lahr, whom you met on the screen in "Flying High," in Ziegfeld' s new show, "Hot-Cha!" It's a Mexican romance with music, gags, and much excitement. played Homer, the press agent of the Greeks. Al Ochs was Hercules. Irby Marshall was a stately and rip-roaring Queen who wore the sacred girdle of Diana. All these were perfect, along with Colin Keith-Johnston and Porter Hall. The rarest dish of the season. "Riddle Me This!" John Golden landed, after two or three swats, with Frank Craven and Thomas Mitchell in Daniel N. Rubin's gripping play of humor, thrill and drama, "Riddle Me This!" Charles Richman, one of the most finished actors on our stage, is the villain, but such a lovable, suave villain ! He's the most ingratiating gentleman that ever squeezed a woman's throat unto death because the lady entertained a Romeo. As the curtain rises we see the doctor (and, by the way, this is exist between the Lord of Creation and the Weaker the fifth doctor that the playwrights have pinned .murVessel — and we have some of the rarest doings since ders on this season) finishing up his wife. Then we see "Lysistrata." him build up his sleuth-tight alibi. Looks as though Romney Brent as the "husband" of the Queen of the nothing could get him. But lo ! and behold ! here are Amazons did the funniest thing of his career. Feminine, Tom Mitchell and Frank Craven. Tom is a detective with whiskers, he is a continuous scream. And this is and Frank is his newspaper pal. It's a great team for not cheap stuff. Brent is a comic artist of high calibre, risible wrinkles. And they squeeze every drop out of Katherine Hepburn as Antiope, the sister of the the parts. And they get the Doc. Queen, did superb rough-and-tumble work. Don Beddoe Well, I'll tell you no more (Continued on page 81) is far removed from life today — and even the motives for living today. The Group Theatre put it on, and although Gertrude Maynard, Morris Carnovsky, Franchot Tone and J. Edward Bromberg did their staccato best, I couldn't see anything in it but something that maybe Doug. Fairbanks the elder might take a crack at. "The Warrior's Husband." Homer, Hercules, Achilles, Ajax and the whole ancient world comes in for a vigorous slap in the phiz in one of the big and sudden surprises of the season, "The Warrior's Husband," by Julian Thompson. It's a chortle, a smash from beginning to end. The sex world is topsy-turvy in Pontus, capital of the Land of the Amazons. The women are the warriors. All the concepts are reversed that Here's Marjorie White, clever little comedienne of Fox films, who supplies some of the fun in "Hot-Cha!" Glad to see you again, Marjorie!