Silver Screen (Nov 1931-Oct 1932)

Silver Screen for March 1932 61 Dunn) returns and gets a rousing welcome from the audience. Sally Eilers is exuberant, too. Johnny brings his mother home. He figuratively and literally kicks over her scrub pails— but that's not what makes your handkerchief damp . . . PALMY DAYS Splendid (United Artist) Eddie "Depression Explainer" Cantor is a riot in this one. There isn't any plot to speak of, but there's lots of fun with Eddie singing songs in an ultra modern doughnut factory. Charlotte Greenwood helps out in the funny business. If you're feeling low, call on Dr. Cantor at your local theatre. —" ^ — . PLATINUM Jean Harlow gets a BLONDE chance to prove she's a Gpoi^ . lady, after reels and reels {Columbia) c-u ■ ,. • u or being a gangster s moll. She marries a lowly news hound and tries to elevate him. But he doesn't take to caviar and champagne and misses Loretta Young, the sob sister. A weak plot but entertaining because of the late Robert William's excellent performance. Joan Crawford in another of those companionate-marriage pictures. Clark Gable is the man. Their arrangement is fine until they fall in love. The basic incident of the plot actually happened to Grover Cleveland. It may not make Gable president but it will elect Joan POSSESSED Good (M-G-M) and him unanimously to a high place in the screen world. SINOFMADELON Get out your handkerCLAUDET. THE chiefs, girls, for this is ^M^r M old-fashioned weepie. (M-G-M) j^gjj Hajnilton is up to his old tricks again— luring a pretty girl away on the pretense of marriage. He disappears and Lewis Stone is left to console the girl (Helen Hayes) who has a baby and a lot of disillusions. Helen has to become a bad girl to be a good mother— or something like that. STRICTLY Paul Lukas is the opera DISHONORABLE singer, and his accent is Delightful charming. Sidney Fox (Universal) ■ • i i i • c ' IS the girl looking for thrills. Preston Sturges wrote the play and the picture follows it closely. Lewis Stone and George Meeker are fine and the whole show is romantic and delightful. . — — , SUSAN LENOX: Garbo finds opportunity HER FALL AND in this old story by "''"^ David Graham Phillips to be forlorn, to be terror stricken, and to be utterly desirable. Clark Gable is the leading man and his love scenes with Garbo are the best yet. The plot is nothing to speak of, but you do not realize this as you are completely lost in the charm of Garbo. In fact there might not be any plot at all for all you care. RISE Excellent (M-G-M) Moments of Destiny [Continued from page 25] a thorough, finished performance, the view was never seriously obstructed by the flurry of hats flung up in the air. 'Then Director Clarence Brown selected him to play Ace Wolfang. Clark played it— and a million feminine fans bit the dust. Remember his big scene when, scorned by Norma Shearer, and liking it less than not at all, he strode into her apartment and started the caveman fireworks? Demanded that she marry him willingly— or else? We knew you would. Here's a little lady with a bright future who answers to the name of Mae Clarke. The peak she scaled was a high spot of "The Front Page." You don't need to be reminded of the scene where, as the little street-walker, Mae leapt out of the window to her death rather than squeal on the weak, pathetic escaped murderer— the only man who had ever shown her either love or respect. Her excellent cinematic conduct when she stood in the spotlight won Mae a nice laurel wreath for her fair brow— and one of the two principal roles in "Waterloo Bridge." The cradle was robbed to furnish the lad who pitched his igloo atop this next peak. He's just a stripling, this Richard Cromwell, who proved an overnight sensation in the title role of "Tcl able David." Dick played beautifully throughout the picture, but certainly the big scene— when the fragile, frightened boy faced the three burly bullies 7nade the picture— and made Dick at the same time. Barbara Stanwyck is another bright particular Hollywood star who made the movie mecca stop, look and— send up skyrockets to notify the world at large it had found a girl who acted like an angel. And it was her restraineil, touching interpretation of that scene in "Ladies of Leisure" where she and the man she loved (Ralph Graves) made their last minute plans for the trip into a new world to begin a new life together— the trip she knew in her aching, broken heart she was destined never to take— that caused most of the pyrotechnics. Let's stop and doff our berets to this likely looking lad— James Dunn, who clinched his whole career in the peak scene of his first picture, "Bad Girl." At the end of that scene where he, as the poor, young husband, cast aside the pride and sensitiveness we knew as the keynote of his character and sobbingly implored the eminent obstetrician to attend his wife, everyone who was not too choked up with tears to talk cried out: "A find!" And, last but not least, here's young Chester Morris, who was made by a picture called "Alibi." This movie fan, for one, will never forget that Morris boy's performance in that moment when the gangster whom ^ve (and the heroine) had loved and trusted from the start, suddenly showed his true colors. And he turned out to be as yellow as the yolk of an egg! Even the world's best mountain climber wouldn't cut much of a figure on a step ladder. But set him down at the foot of Mt. Everest or the Matterhorn and he makes history. By the same token, the talented movie youngster may skim along with three or four pictures which never rise to great heights, and never make so much as a ripple. 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