Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

60 Silver Screen for June 19 3 9 For LOVES SAKE avo .J Lips that invite love must be soft lips . . . sweetly smooth, blessedly free from any roughness or parching. So — choose your lipstick wisely! Coty "Sub-Deb" Lipstick does double duty. It lends your lips warm, ardent color. But — it also helps to protect lips from lipstick parching. This Coty benefit is partly due to "Theobroma." Eight drops of this softening ingredient go into every "Sub-Deb" Lipstick. 50^. TV™ — "Air-Spun" Rouge. Actually blended _ by air, it has a new exquisite P j smoothness, glowing colors, T Shades match the Lipstick. 50^. New— an exciting fashion-setting shade, "Dahlia." Available in Lipstick and Rouge. SUB-DEB LIPSTICK 50* Eight drops of "Theobroma" go into every "Sub-Deb" LipStick, That's how Coty guards acainst lipstick parching. IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD One of Those Hilarious Mystery Farces — M-G-M CLAUDETTE COLBERT and Jimmy Stewart are teamed in this comedy which will have you rolling in the aisles. Claudette plays a young and pretty poetess, of all things, who stops at a hot dog stand to fill up on her favorite food before attending a poetry banquet. She sees Jimmy knock a cop out who is handcuffed to him and free himself, and quite naturally thinks that she is witnessing a murder. As a matter of fact Jimmy is a free lancing detective and bodyguard of the multi-millionaire playboy, Ernest Truex, and is being taken to Sing Sing to spend a year, because he was caught trying to help his boss escape the chair. Jimmy has hit upon an important clue, and what with Claudette threatening to tell the police and ruin everything there's nothing he can do but take her along with him. Claudette again proves herself Hollywood's top comedienne, and gets pushed around plenty by the always capable Jimmy. In the cast are Frances Drake as the gold-digging wife, Nat Pendleton and Edgar Kennedy as a couple of flat-foot cops, and Guy Kibbee, who gets a klonk on the head by Claudette that he'll always remember. • THE KID FROM TEXAS How a Cowboy Crashes Long Island Society — M-G-M DENNIS O'KEEFE (Metro claims he's a Clark Gable find) plays a cowboy from Texas who has a yen for polo. He finally gets his chance in a swanky Long Island game. How he messes it up, joins a rodeo, and eventually comes back to the scene of his humiliation with a team of cowboys and Indians, and wins the match as well as the girl, makes for a very neat little story. Florence Rice plays the girl he wins, Anthony Allan her brother and that swell trouper, Jessie Ralph, her aunt. Standouts in small parts are Buddy Ebsen, Virginia Dale, and Robert Wilcox. MIDNIGHT The Breeziest Comedy Of The Year —Par. WHAT fun this one is ! Claudette Colbert, who is cutting up like mad these days, plays an ex-chorus girl from the U.S.A., who puts all her ill-gotten gains on the wrong number at Monte Carlo and has to pawn her luggage to get out of town. Arriving in Paris late at night, bereft of everything but the evening dress she is wearing, she is picked up by Don Ameche, a soft-hearted taxi driver, with honorable intentions. But Claudette doesn't trust men— not after the men she's known — so she runs away from him and runs right into a very formal and swanky musical being given by a Parisian social light, Hedda Hopper. There she gets involved in a bridge game with the most chic and fashionable folk of Paris, and makes the acquaintance of the rather eccentric John Barrymore who suspects her at once of being an imposter, but decides to play fairy god father to her. He hopes to make Claudette so attractive that she will lure Francis Lederer away from his (John's) young wife, Mary Astor. Claudette becomes a "baroness" with a car nearly a block long and sets out for a gay week-end at Barrymore's country place, with every intention of catching the wealthy and philandering Mr. Lederer for herself. But along comes Don Ameche. The plot goes from one complication to another, all of them screamingly funny, and ends up in a Paris divorce court. Claudette is superb. So is Don. And Mr. Barrymore, of course, steals every scene he is in. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Whew! This Mystery Will Have You Holding On To Your Seats — 20th Century Fox IT IS indeed a pleasure to find Sherlock Holmes back on the screen this month. Especially when he is played by that grand actor Basil Rathbone, who is simply Mr. Holmes to a T. In this old Sir Conan Doyle classic, Master Sleuth Sherlock Holmes shows those young whippersnappers, the Philo Vances and the Nick Charleses, a thing or two about detecting. The story, you may recall, concerns the mystery that surrounds the death of the hereditary heads of the Baskerville estate. When Richard Greene arrives from Canada to take over his deceased uncle's gloomy castle in fog-wraithed Devonshire he is marked for violent death. Sherlock Holmes is called into the case, and with him, of course, Dr. Watson, excellently characterized by Nigel Bruce. How Holmes and Watson track down the killer makes for the best spine-tingling evening you've ever spent in a theatre. The terrible baying of the hound, the misty moors, the menacing mires, the secrecy of the Baskerville servants, and the old Druid cemetery are all there — and what fun for the thrill lovers. Wendy Barrie plays Miss Stapleton and Morton Lowry, her step-brother. Lionel Atwill, Beryl Mercer and John Carradine are in the cast. ZENOBIA Slapstick Comedy At Its Best —UA WHEN Stan Laurel walked out of the Laurel and Hardy team our old friend Harry Langdon walked in. And Harry's performance is the best thing in the picture. N Zenobia, my dears, is a she elephant, and goes in for a fine bit of scene stealing, what with her size and her mugging. She takes a fancy to Doctor Oliver Hardy when he removes a painful knot some brat has tied in her tail, and from then on she is his constant companion. Professor Harry Langdon, a medicine show man, and the owner of Zenobia, sues Doctor Hardy for alienation of Zenobia's affections, and there follows one of the funniest court trials in the movies. Billie Burke and Alice Brady are grand and James Ellison, June Lang and Jean Parker look after the romantic triangle. A high spot in the film comes when a little kid recites the Declaration of Independence.