Silver Screen (May-Oct 1934)

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ROUGE and LIPSTICK Silver Screen for July 1934 THE SCARLET EMPRESS Rating: 37° Symbols and Cymbals and Nets to You— Paramount ONE of the most spectacular, art-conscious pictures ever to escape the Hollywood workshops, but its magnitude, unfortunately, is rather wearying. Photographically and musically it is a beautiful production, but we of the Americas do like a bit of plot and good acting thrown into our cinema. Marlene Dietrich is even more beautiful than ever and you are given ample opportunity to revel in her beauty, for one closeup follows another in startling rapidity, but some old meanie thought it would be a good idea to throw a net in front of the camera, and in time you become triple annoyed with those nets— just as you do with the constantly tolling bells and stampeding Cossacks. But maybe we're just an old vulgarian who doesn't appreciate Art. Marlene, as you know, plays young Catharine of Russia, who later becomes the Empress when Louise Dresser dies. Sam Jaffe, looking very much like Harpo Marx, plays the Mad Peter, and John Lodge, through clenched teeth, plays the Russian ambassador who brings Marlene to the court and gives her her first lesson in love. More drama and fewer symbols and cymbals would be appreciated. SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY Rating: 71° And a Good Woman Done Him Wrong— Fox HERE is one of the most charmingly impudent comedies you have ever seen, with a naive disregard for morals that is quite delightful. Henry, played by Otto Kruger, is an utterly enchanting young fellow who devotes his life to love and the pursuit of happiness. Naturally other men's wives are simply mad about him. But it's spring and Henry is restless. He notices that his secretary (Heather Angel) is attractive, and he makes the startling discovery that she is "good"— so he persuades himself that he is in love with her and should reform so that he might be worthy of her. So Henry becomes as dull as dishwater, which simply infuriates Nancy Carroll, the wife of his dumb friend, Nigel Bruce, who is having one of those very gay and naughty affairs with him. And then the "surprise!" That "good" woman, the dull, pure secretary, walks off with the married and respectable Nigel Bruce, while Nancy takes Henry to a meeting at the Ray of Hope Mission, which results in his reformation. It's lots of fun. Otto Kruger gives a grand performance as Henry, and Nancy Carroll plays beautifully and capably the young wife who has a yen for the debonair Henry. It's good to have Nancy back again after all these months and she looks like a million dollars. HOW TO HAVE THEM GLORIFY your lashes — give them that long, lustrous look no man can resist. It's so easy. Just darken them with Winx Mascara (cake or liquid 75£). Pure and safe — not a dye. Thousands of smart women have used Winx for years to beautify lashes. Also "dress" the brows with a Winx Pencil (35^) and use Winx Eye Shadow (7 5 i ) for smart make-up. Buy Winx Eye Beautifiers at all department and drug stores. For the most complete booklet ever written on eye makeup, write for FREE copy of "Lovely Eyes" to Louise Ross, Dept. G, 243 West 1 7th Street, New York City. FREE SADIE McKEE Rating: 41° Cinderella 1934 Model— MetroGoldwyn-Mayer YOU'LL not be disappointed in the newest Joan Crawford picture— unless you're one of those dyed-in-the-wool Crawford fans who wants your Joan in every sequence. Joan sort of steps aside this time and gives all the big scenes to the rest of the cast— Franchot Tone, Gene Raymond, Jean Dixon, Esther Ralston, and Edward Arnold— and we of the old diphard school, who want our movie stars in every inch of the footage, rather resent this. The plot is awfully reminiscent of other plots— dating back to Cinderella— but somehow we always seem to like it. Joan is a maid (and the daughter of the cook) in Franchot's rich daddy's house, but when Franchot has her boy friend (Gene Ray \ inond) fired for stealing or something, she throws the soup in his face literally and runs away to New York with Gene. Scared to death by the city the kids pick up Jean Dixon, one of those hard babies, in an automat and she pilots them to her boarding house, which is some dump. Gene and Joan plan to marry the next day, but Gene is a weak character and when Esther Ralston offers him a singing job in her act he walks out on Joan. Disillusioned with life now, Joan gets a job in a speakeasy where, one night, she bumps into Franchot, who's trying to get his millionaire client, Edward Arnold, to go home and go to bed. But when the bibulous and sentimental Mr. Arnold meets Joan, there's nothing to do about it but he must marry her at once. Arnold's drunken scenes are the highlights of the picture as far as the comedy is concerned. Everything gets awfully serious later, with Joan divorcing Arnold to return to Gene, who's dying with tuberculosis— only to discover that it is Franchot she loves all the time. You just know Vina Delmar wrote it. THE CIRCUS CLOWN Rating: 75° Grand Entertainment for Young and Old— Warners JOE E. BROWN'S latest picture is a riot of fun from beginning to end, and when we say this we are saying something because we never before really liked Joe E. Brown. But now we're such an ardent Joe E. Brown fan that we're going to write him a fan letter. Why, we haven't laughed in years the way we did at his picture the other night. Joe E. plays a half-baked, callow, country boy who's just got to get in the circus because it's in his blood (his old man was "the man on the flying trapeze.") So he runs away from home and gets a job manicuring lions and elephants in a big circus. Straightway he falls in love with Miss La Tour, a famous bare-back rider, who happens to be Donald Dilloway in disguise. Whoops! Do the boys kid him about that! No one will believe that he is a sw;ell acrobat or give him a chance to prove it— until one night from sheer stupidity he gets involved with the flying-something-orothers and brings down the house. But his success is short-lived, as he has to get drunk to save the brother of a girl he has fallen in love with— and after blacking the eyes of Miss La Tour he gets fired. But what a comeback he stages— at little more than a moment's notice he substitutes for Laffo, the. flying clown, and wins his girl (Pat Ellis^ and a circus contract and everything. There are some swell aisle-rolling scenes, with a couple of lions. This will be more fun for the kids than a real circus. LAUGHING BOY Rating: 25° Sweet Romance— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer THE picturization of Oliver La Farge's famous novel has Ramon Novarro plaving "Laughing Boy" and Lupe Velez "Slim Girl." The book is a study in psychology of a young Indian idealist, contrasted with a modern Indian girl who has straved from the traditions of her race through white man's education. It's a tragic, beautiful story, but awfully hard to put on the screen. Ramon isn't exactly convincing— especially as the picture has a background of real Indians which makes it a bit hard for the fake ones. And why Ramon and Lupe should have accents whereas the real Indians speak perfect, un accented English is something we haven't figured out. \Contimted on page 61]