Screenland (Jun-Oct 1932)

for August 1932 31 *1 EVUETTES Answering your question: "What pictures shall I see?" Class A: ★ AS YOU DESIRE ME. MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. Garbo's last film — maybe! She gives a glamorous performance in a varied role which takes her from youth to a world-weary woman with platinum blonde hair. Melvyn Douglas and Erich Von Stroheim are interesting support.* ★ GRAND HOTEL. Metro-GoldwynMayer. The film sensation of the vear with Garbo topping a knockout cast which includes John Banymore, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt. ★ HUDDLE. Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ramon Novarro, as a Latin college boy, scores in this rousing football film. Henry Armetta offers first-rate comedy. Madge Evans is the girl. This is a "Must."* ★LETTY LYNTON. Metro-GoldwynMayer. Joan Crawford at her very, very best in this melodrama about a modern maiden who becomes involved with a "baddie," Nils Asther. Robert Montgomery" is better than usual; Nils Asther is good, too.* ★ RESERVED FOR LADLES. BritishParamount. A light and thoroughly charming picture with Leslie Howard giving a grand performance. You'll like Elizabeth Allan and Benita Hume. Don't miss this British picture.* ★ SCANDAL FOR SALE. Universal. An exciting newspaper yarn exposing yellow journalism. Pat O'Brien, as a reporter, steals the show. Charles Bickford and Rose Hobart offer expert characterizations. ★ SCARFACE. United Artists. The last and best of all the gangster films. It's terrifying, thrilling! Paul Muni is great; George Raft, Ann Dvorak, and Karen Morley excellent. ★ STATE'S ATTORNEY. RKO. John Barrymore plays a criminal lawyer brilliantly and Barrymorishly. Helen Twelvetrees gives an admirable performance as his "heart," and Jill Esmond is interesting. Recommended.* ★ TARZAN THE APE MAN. Melro-Goldwyn\layer. You're sure to enjoy this jungle thriller. Besides, you'll want to see Johnny Weissmuller do some of his splendid swimming. Maureen O'Sullivan is the charmer. ★ THE CONGRESS DANCES. UFA. Utterly charming foreign picture, English version. You'll be whistling the songs and talking about Lilian Harvey, the heroine. By all means, see it. ★ THE MIRACLE MAN. Paramount. This onetime silent classic retains most of its glamor in talkies. It's well done and acted by Chester Morris, Sylvia Sidney and John Wray. ★ THE MOUTHPIECE. Warner Brothers. Dust off that pedestal — you'll rave about Warren William, even though he does play a lawyer who defends bad, bad crooks. It's a good picture. Sidney Fox assists. .JL, THE WET PARADE. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A ^ melodrama covering both angles of the 18th Amendment. Good work by Walter Huston, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, and Dorothy Jordan. JL WINNER TAKE ALL. Warner Brothers. A ^ knockout performance by Jimmy Cagney, who plays a dumb prize-fighter. With Marian Nixon. Don't pass this by.* JL, YOUNG AMERICA. Fox. A film about so^ called "bad boys," and the juvenile courts. You'll like the two youngsters. Tommy Conlon and Raymond Borzage. Spencer Tracy, Ralph Bellamy, Beryl Mercer, and Doris Kenyon are fine.* Torchy's in trouble again! Ray Cooke is amusing as the movies' star office-hoy . This is a scene from his latest educational comedy, "Torchy's Two Toots." You'll like it. Class B: AMATEUR DADDY. Fox. If you like nice oldfashioned romance — here's your dish! Warner Baxter is made guardian of Marian Nixon and three youngsters. Baxter and Marian are grand together.* BEHIND THE MASK. Columbia. If you like 'em gruesome you'll go for this. Jack Holt is the secret service man hero, Boris Karloff, the menace, and Constance Cummings, the heroine.* LOVE IS A RACKET. Warner Brothers. Columnists, racketeers, stage cuties — and there's even a murder. But still it's only mildly entertaining. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., plays the newspaper man, Ann Dvorak opposite.* SKY BRIDE. Paramount. Thrilling air stunts, corking comedy, Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Virginia Bruce, and Bobby Coogan. Of course, see it!* SYMPHONY OF SIX MILLION. RKO. The rise of a family from the Ghetto to fame, then their voluntary return to the Ghetto for happiness. Ricardo Cortez is excellent in the role of a surgeon. Irene Dunne and Anna Appel are also good. THE STRANGE CASE OF CLARA DEANE. Paramount. A sure-fire tear jerker. Wynne Gibson's splendid acting in this mother-love melodrama puts her right up in the big-time class. Pat O'Brien is good as a bad man.* THE STRANGE LOVE OF MOLLY LOUVAIN. First National. Swell comedy-drama. Lee Tracy is corking as a newspaper reporter. Ann Dvorak is excellent as a "tinsel girl." See this one.* THE TENDERFOOT. First National. Joe E. Brown's best comedy. Brown comes out of the West with twenty-thousand dollars and a desire to be a theatrical producer. It's hilarious throughout. Ginger Rogers and Lew Cody assist.* THE TRIAL OF VTVTENNE WARE. Fox. The splendid direction makes this murder-mystery picture a treat. Joan Bennett makes a lovely heroine. ZaSu Pitts and Skeets Gallagher for laughs.* TRAPEZE. Harmonie. This will introduce Anna Sten, whom you'll be seeing in American pictures soon. It's an interesting film with a circus background. A German picture, but the dialogue is translated for you.* THE WOMAN IN ROOM 13. Fox. Elissa Landi's beauty and clever acting make this involved yarn of murder, suicide and blackmail interesting. With Ralph Bellamy and Neil Hamilton.* TWO SECONDS. First National. Depressing melodrama, with Edward G. Robinson playing a riveter who murders his dance-hall wife. Vivienne Osborne does excellent work. Sordid.* Short Features: ADMISSION FREE. Paramount. Betty Boop. the cartoon cutie, in a penny arcade. A better-thanaverage cartoon. CHOO-CHOO. Hal Roach. "Our Gang" on a train. The kids let loose a flock of animals in the baggage car and do a lot •■of other mischievous things. Good for many hearty laughs. HOLLYWOOD LIGHTS. Educational. The adventures of three Hollywood girls in search of a break. They find it after several amusing adventures. Nice work by Rita Flynn, Virginia Brooks, and Tut Mace. HOLY MEN OF INDIA. Featuretles. A trip through India. Scenes of natives gathering for religious celebrations. Ten minutes of fascinating stuff. LET'S EAT. Universal. Oswald, the cartoon hero, baits his hook for fish and ends up by catching a bear. But deer, deer — in fact, a whole herd of them — steal it from him. Fairly funny. REMEMBER WHEN. Yilaphone. Very amusing revival of 20-year-old news-reel flashes such as the women's suffrage parade and the start of the tragic voyage of the Lusitania. You'll enjoy it. RULE 'EM AND WEEP. RKO-Pathe. This is different. Wrong sound effects are introduced. When a horse gallops you hear the sound of an airplane. A stage coach sounds like a locomotive. It's amusing. TORCHY'S TWO TOOTS. Educational. Torchy in trouble as usual. He gets fired — for a few minutes — but does a good deed for his boss and all ends well. Ray Cooke is the amusing Torchy. * Rcviezved in this issue. T^T These pictures have been selected by Delight Evans as worthy of Screenland's seal of approval.