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DAILY NEWS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 193r 23 the Tibbett tones and the Velez 'FRANKENSTEIN' WEIRD CHILLER Horrors at Mayfair Chalk Up 3 Stars; HELENE COSTELLO SAYS 'TAINT SO TO HUBBY'S CHARGES (Chicago Tribune Press Service) Hollywood, Dec. 4. Milton Cohen, attorney for Helene Costello, film actress, today said that his client would file an answer tomorrow to the divorce complaint to Roxy's "Cuban By IRENE Frankenstein, a Universal and presented at the Mayfair Theatre. THE CAST: Frankenstein -''olio Clire Ellzalxth Mas Clxrks Victor It'll'- The Moritnr B'iris Karloff Tr.

1 anl Van Sloan ThB liWiirl Dwigbl Fry The Baron Frederick Krr Burgomaster Lionel Belmura Brrrr! And whewww! Here's a chilly one! "Frankenstein" will freeze you to the shivering degree while you're viewing the current Universal thriller from your comfortable plush seat in the steam-heated Mayfair Theatre. We needed a weird, shadowy, spookv picture. There hasn't been -4 -0 John Holes. Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye and Colin Clive are shown in a scene from "Frankenstein," the Myfair's new screen offering. one for quite a while.

And "Frankenstein" isn't the ordinary tale of murder and mvsterv. It's a study vivacity. On the stage at the Roxy, you will see "Rhapsody in Color," a lavish and epectacular revue featuring Henri Therrien, Patricia Bowman, toe iJallet Corps, the On I --ft .1 I I Lawrence Tibbett and Lupe Velez have the leading roles in "The Cuban Love Song," now at the Roxy Theatre. Wah Troupe the Four Wileys, Don Pedro, Rem Reyes, Royo Reyes, Marie McQuarrie, Betty Froos. and the Roxyettes.

The orchestra plays a special arrangement of current musical hits, conducted by Maurice caron. And tnere a newsreel. (Reprinted from yesterday's late editions.) "Blonde Crazy," a Warner Bros. production, directed by Roy del Ruth and presented at the Strand theatre. THE CAST: Bert Cairney Ann joaa Blondt-il Dapper Dan Barker.

Calhem Helen Noel Francis Kupert Johnson Guy Kibbee R'jnulua Milland Yetxj Polly Walters Four-eye Levinson Bellook William Burress Iutch Erkelenz Mrs. Snyder. Ebume Lee Walter Percival Hank iiat Pendleton Rough and robust comedv com bined with romance "Blonde Crazy" brings Jimmy Cagney into the ranks of the screen's leading gents. Cagney puts over one swift and swell performance in this new Strand programmer. And the picture assures eighty minutes' worth of interest, with laughs coming no less than a minute apart.

Whenever anything really deep develops in the plot and it's a neat, meaty one there's a sudden spurt of slap-stick which brings the house down in giggles. That's what Director Roy del Ruth set out to do with the star and story. And it's done! Although cute Joan Blondell doesn't get as big a break as Cagney in this one, she's a mighty fine trouper and an attractive blond. So's Noel Francis awfully good to look at, and we say ditto for Polly Walters, both of the girls getting supporting roles which rate quite importantly. Loui3 Calhern, Guy Kibbee and Raymond Milland are among the males who help Cagney.

But it's practically Jimmy's picture all the way. See if you don't think the boy'3 clever. Clever? He's a panic! lhe script, which used to be called "Larceny Lane," has to do with a small-town bellhop who teams up with, a smart chambermaid. Together they do the country, swindling folks and living off the easy dough. It's not such a nice racket, but Bert and Ann get along until there are complications.

Bert does some actual stealing and i it looks as though the rap's going to be the finish of the racket. But we'll leave the finish of the picture to yon. You're going to like it. It's down-to-earth, amusing and exceedingly well performed. A SOth St.

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Hollywood, Dec. 4. Three new pictures just out of the Hollywood hoppers went to the preview staire last isicht and roused enthusiasm in this jaded center of world entertainment. The trio are "ladies of the Big House." Paramount, with Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond, a melodrama of the women's quarters of San Quentin Prison with a finale bathed in tears: "Delicious," a fairy tale, with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, doubtless as sure fire as apple pie a la mode, shown by Fox at Movietone City, Winfield Sheehan too ill to be present, and Almost Married," also a Fox film, another mystery thriller that sent the audience into shivery titters, directed by Bill Menzies and dialogued by Wallace Smith. Sylvia Sidney viewed her starring job in so did B.

P. Schulberg. Both were pretty well pleased. Menzies, a transformed art director, made "Almost Married" a scenic and photographic lelitrht. Hollywood is at labor and the results continue to come.

Gaiimaster Mack Sennett is preparing to put forth his greatest masterpiece since the Mabel Nor-mand comedies. Untitled, this full-length feature comedy will have in its cast Moran and Mack, W. C. V. Sylvia Sidney Fields, Luje Velez, perhaps Jean Harlow and Clara Bow.

Sennett is enthusiastic over his prospects. He will direct it in person, starting soon after the first of the year, after a long wait. He has decided that all the world wants is a good laugh and he'll provide it. Chic Sale has gone to bed, his berls are that bad. Since Edward R.

Tinker ha3 become president of For the pessimistic wags on the lot are calling it "Tinker's Damn." Hollywood agents are to go into session Monday to talk about salary slashes, especially those in effect at Warners, but there is no hint of the "war" between agents and producers that was in the air earlier in the year. Things are too tough to fight. Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams, playing acrobats, carry the love interest in Metro's "Freaks." Maureen O'Sullivan. female lead in "Tarzan." got a sore shoulder from shooting an elephant gun. Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller is Tarzan and he consoled Maureen by teaching her some aquatic tricks.

If Ronald Colman gets back in time from Europe, where he was reported dickering over divorce arrangements with his estranged wife, Tholma Ray, British aetres3 of the musical stage, he will be sought by Paramount to act opposite Marlene Dietrich in her next "An Entirely Differently Woman." With reserved Ronnie and incandescent Marlene, it will be interesting atch what happens when they couple the ice and the flame. Love Song" 2 THIRER. production, directed by Jame3 Whale i i ft Boris Karloff as he appears in the Universal production now on view at the Mayfair Theatre. Jimmy Durante are the Marine buddies. There are numerous wisecracks, but we didn't find most of them funny.

Not even Jimmy's. Karen Morley 13 the girl back home, rating an opening scene and one towards closing. W. S. Van Dyke, who has done such important things a3 "Trader Horn" and "White Shadows," must have had plenty trouble directing "The Cuban Love Song." The story is forced, chuck full of everything, and quite laughable during some of its dramatic moments.

Not more than fair, in spite of A 'V'l her husband, Lowell Sherman, actor "which ought to blow Sherman out of the movies." Cohen said "Miss Costello indignantly denies every assertion in Sherman's ridiculous these including that she struck him with a whip, tried to attack uis moiiier, Decame intoxicated, called him vile names, insulted Sherman to his friends and rela tives by making remarks derogatory to his manhood. nd fillincp the couple's home with erotic literature. UNHOLY GARDEN Fr Wray ErteBc Tiylor Vaudeville JAI. C. FL1PPEN Returns to Blackface PAULTRE MAINE and Orchestra KIM.

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A woman, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote the book which makes this cinema material. And James Whale directs the strange piece for the screen, proving once again that he's an ace megaphoner. In "Frankenstein," Mr. Whale has cast Colin Clive of "Journey's En 1" for the name role and Mae Clarke of "Waterloo Bridge" for the feminine lead. The director was associated with both the aforementioned hit productions.

And indeed he chalks up another winner demonstrating, too, his versatility. The picture is skillfully worked out, we believe, in the Bavarian village where the plot is laid. It is absolutely real, never once smacking of papier mache. We believe in the endeavors of Henry (Clive) as a medical scientist to create life. And when a monster, evolved by Henry's own hand3, and endowed with the human brain of a deceased criminal, actually breathes, grunt3 and walks, we're not in the least skeptical; merely fascinated.

We know he's about to perform grotesque acts, and we don't question the plausibility of the tale. If it is Bavarian legend, it is heartily interesting and wholly absorbing. Colin Clive gives a sincere and well spoken performance as Frankenstein, whose sanity is questioned during the period he confines himself to his laboratory in the old mill. Boris Karloff i3 the monster a howling, snarling, long-limbed thing which meets a just fate after causing fatality and havoc during its short, awful existence. Karloff does excellently.

Mae Clarke works charmingly. John Boles takes a small bit gracefully. Frederick Kerr adds some necessary high-comedy, delightfully. Others do well, too. And there's a round of real applause from Mayfair audiences as the curtain ring3 down on the fadeout.

A dandy December offering! The Cuban Love Song," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, directed by W. S. Van Dyke and presented at the Roxy Theatre. THE CAST: Trrr Lawrenf-n Tihhett Llim Velea Rix-ket TorreiKe O. O.

Jones. Durante Crystal Karen Morley Elvira Fazcnda Hale Hamilton Aun Rosa MathiMa Coraont Terry Jr Philip Cooper The United States Marines in Cuba; a dark-eyed senorita who sells peanuts; a soldier who falls for her, forgetting the girl he left bemnd in Wk; romance in the tropics; war in France; Gotham aeain and civilian life for ten- years; wanderlust and return to Havana to seek the senorita who is in her grave, but leaves a little son to await his soldier-father's coming. Now you know "The Cuban Love Song." Lawrence Tibbett sings handsomely in several of the passages; the tune3 being the internationally known "Peanut Vender" and a little one, title of the picture. Fiery Lupe Velez warbles duets with the Metropolitan star whose voice is still far more impressive than his screen personality. He and Ernest Torrence and TWICE DMLT 3 LAST 3 DAYS.