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<J The PICTURE of the Month
HIS is dedicated to the discriminating few who care much for literature and little for motion pictures. It will he a matter of interest to this minority to note how faithfully a novel has been transferred to the silversheet.
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& Damned
— Warner Bros. "Production
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'ANGER, SLOW DOWN ! the sign-post read. But Gloria, little spoiled butterfly that she is, and her gay young husband, Tony, cannot read the warning. From the moment that the two marry, secure in the pathetic but glorious delusion that two can live on an income not sufficient for one, they rush on in their mad search for pleasure. Tony's budding attempts at ambition are hampered by his young wife's longing for excitement, until he, too, loses all desire for work. Then Fate, sensing the crash that must come, pulls them up short. Comes poverty that brings out the hidden
strength in the frivolous wife and the latent weakness in the husband. Then .... regeneration.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, The Beautiful and Damned, has been adhered to faithfully in the Warner Bros, screen version. Necessarily lacking the witty cynicisms of Fitzgerald's brilliant style, yet the picture sweeps on to a triumphant climax.
Marie Prevost as Gloria does by far the best work of her career. She is Gloria, pretty, petted, apparently thoroughly — though adorably — selfish . Her transformation from a plaything to a real woman, under the sting of
poverty and grief, must surprise those critics who have seen little trace of dramatic ability in the light comedies in which she has been wasted heretofore.
Kenneth Harlan's work as Anthony Patch is highly commendable. The heir apparent to the great wealth of an aged grandfather, he is convincing at all times. He acts as probably we would under the same circumstances. Not heroic. Just human. Tully Marshall as the grandfather is excellent. Others deserving of praise are Louise Fazenda, the village vampire and Harry Myers, as the impecunious young novelist.