Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

Silver Screen for January 1937 61 In "Theodora Goes Wild," Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas develop romance among the fish. young illustrator, who twits her about her primness and even follows her back to Connecticut to egg her on to kick over the traces. Having fallen in love with him, Irene takes his advice finally and goes wild successfully, too successfully, with headlines in all the newspapers. She turns the tables on Douglas, whom she discovers has a whole slue of repressions of his own. There's one insane comedy sequence after another until the gal finally gets her man. The scene where the shocking Theodora, alias Caroline Adams, returns to the prim little town with a baby in her arms, is the brightest, most hilarious comedy spot of the year. THE IN himself another girl with a much wealthier father and the course of true love runs smoothly. Eugene Pallette and Catherine iSoucet play Jane's mother and father. The best comedy is contributed by Nat Pendleton as the rich girl's bodyguard. FUGITIVE IN THE SKY Another of Those Aviation Thrillers— Warner Brothers WE FIND high up in the skies on a transcontinental plane, the Kansas City Limited to be exact, a newspaper man, a pretty stewardess, a G-man, a public enemy No. I disguised in a woman's clothes, an old lady busy making astrological charts, and a murdered man. There is much ado, to be sure, -^vhen the killer rips out a gun from under his feminine skirts and takes charge of the frightened passengers. He forces the plane to land in a dust storm but is captured, before he can make his escape, by the good old G-man— and then, to everyone's surprise, it is discovered that he didn't murder the passenger after all. you just know there'll be plenty of bright humor, and there is. Ann models smart clothes for photographic purposes and Helen manages the advertising studio where she works. They bribe Eric Blore, valet of the extremely wealthy and social register Gene Raymond, to let them use his master's yacht as a background for a series of yachting costumes. The male model is late showing up at the yacht so when Gene comes aboard, quite surprised by it all, Ann mistakes him for the model and puts him to work helping her with the pictures. Of course they fall in love and Gene continues to disguise himself as a male model until the hilarious finale. There's nary a dull moment. TARZAN ESCAPES Excitement in the Jungle— M-G-M THE kids will simply go crazy when they get a look at the latest Tarzan picture; there'll just be no keeping them from falling out of the balcony in their ecstasy. And, judging from the previe^\' audience, there'll be many an adult who gets a thrill out of it too. Jane and Tarzan (Maureen O 'Sullivan and Johnny Weissmuller) are very happy in their jungle home, with Cheetah the chimpanzee acting as housemaid, and an elephant performing the duties of an elevator boy. Yes, all is peace and happiness in the jungle until one day Janes relatives appear and start pleading with Jane to return with them to London and help them save the family fortune. It's all LUCKIEST GIRL THE WORLD A Routine Plot— But One That's Always Good— Universal THIS is the story of the rich girl and the poor boy and if you think it sounds familiar you are definitely right. "It Happened One Night " is its Alma Mater. Jane Wyatt plays the rich society girl who becomes infatuated with a scheming insurance salesman. To prove to her father that she can live on the salesman's salary she takes $150 and leaves home for thirty days. In a cheap boarding house she meets Louis Hayward, and by the time they have had a series, of whimsical misadventures in connection with the community use of the Irathroom they have fallen in love with each other. The conniving salesman finds Catherine Doucet, Eugene Pallette and Jane Wyatt, in "The Luckiest Girl in the World," bring to the screen a picture of charm and subtlety. Warren Hull plays the newspaper lad, and Jean Muir his fiancee and tiie plane's stewardess. John Litel is the G-man and Howard Phillips the killer. SMARTEST GIRL IN TOWN Mistaken Identity Is the Theme— 7J-/\-0 ANOTHER of those gay, romantic comedies starring [)retty Aim Sothcni and Gene Raymond. And. of course, with Eric Rlore and Helen lirodcrick in ilic cast a hoax to get Jane back to civilization the poor girl doesn't know it so she senls to go back with them. With the relati\es comes a_nasty tra who is in cahoots with a tiilic of 1) thirsty savages, who plans, with the! sistance, to get Tarzan in a cage and him back to England to exhibit in shows. He gets the genlle Tar/an in a all right, but wlicii Tar/an sees his be Jane and her relati\cs al the mcrc\ o [Coiiliiiiicil oil jxii^c ()()] hut con pper. loodr astakc sidccage oved if the