Silver Screen (Nov 1930-Oct 1931)

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SILVER SCREEN'S FIGHTING A mild carbon copy of "The Covered CARAVANS Wagon," with dialogue and sound Rating: GOOD added, but with the novelty and the Paramount thrills missing. It's a big production, beautifully photographed and well enough acted, but since the action is kept around the two old scouts, Ernest Torrence and TuUy Marshall, rather than around Gary Cooper and Lily Damita, the love interest, it's good only for an evening's entertainment, and not great. FINN AND Two little kids, Mitzi Green and Jackie HATTIE Searl, steal this swell comedy. It's the Rating: GOOD story of Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad Paramount which Donald Ogden Stewart authored with many wise-cracks. Finn (that's the old man) has made a lot of money and thinks it would be a grand idea to take his family on a trip — he does, and how! Leon Errol and ZaSu Pitts are mama and papa and it's all great for the children. America's Sweetheart playing a Parisian KIKI chorus gal is rather unusual, but she Rating: GOOD surprises you. For our Mary returns to United Artists her first acting love and is grand as a slapstick comedienne. As Kiki, Mary gets kicked out of a show for wrecking it and then tries to vamp the producer away from his ex-wife. The way Mary does it is no less than a riot. Reginald Denny's good as the producer, and Phil Te.id is clever. DON'T BET ON A very strong-minded gentleman who WOMEN claims women must be led makes a Rating: GOOD bet with a well known hot-shot with Fox the ladies that the latter can't kiss his wife within forty-eight hours. Things get pretty warm for the hubby and all concerned. Clever acting and direction make this highly amusing and sophisticated entertainment. Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonald and Roland Young all do splendid I v. LONELY WIVES Rating: GOOD Pathe This is naughty, but censor-proof entertainment, a fast and furious farce — with double meanings and everything else. Edward Everett Horton plays a hubby with a wild streak, who hires a near likeness to double for him to fool his mother-in-law, so he can go playing. Everything is swell until the wife comes home unexpectedly and likes his double. Laura La Plante, Esther Ralston and Patsy Ruth Miller are the lovely ladies. 40 PARLOR, MHO We've been waiting .i lont; ume lor jusc ROOM AND BATH such a comedy from that frozen-faced Rating: GOOD comic, Buster Keaton. Imagine Buster M-G-M with a false reputation as a great lover — and what would happen if several passionate ladies went after him. That's what happens to Bashful Buster. Pretty girls get into their undies and then the husband of one walks in on Buster. It's all fast and furious and an outstanding fun film you shouldn't miss. Silver Screen