Daily News from New York, New York • 274

DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 19.33 'SEASON IN CAIRO' IS BEAUTIFULLY FILMED fantasy. To the lilting music of Santa's Music live dolls from many lands pirouette while the s.trains of Mozart bring the pageant to a close with a minuet in which the entire cast, brilliantly costumed, take part. "Convention City. a First the old familiar faces on the company's roster. This comedy is an expose.

It reveals that conventions are for pleasure rather than business. It. is only fair to hen-pecked husbands that this reviewer recommend this picture to men only, for if wives and sweethearts see it, conventions will be flooded with wives and sweethearts to keep watchful eyes' likely candidate, and he is areom panied by his domineering Wife, Ruth Donnelly. Mary Astor is th best woman salesman on the road and she is in love with Menjou, who is married. Dick IWtll is a young enthusiast attending his fiist.convention.

Joan Blondell an Gordon Wcstcott are the hadgera who trim the delegates. Patricia Ellis is the president's daughter who likeg Dick Powell, but is intrigued by Menjou. Giant Mitchell is the pious president of the company. And, believe it or not, Frank Mcllugh is the inebriated representative. It ia all a lot of fun if you like seeing the same eld faces in the same old predicaments.

National production, directed by Archie Mayo and presented at the Strand Theatre. on their men. "Convention City" is a clever idea, but the picture is filled with too many worn incidents. It is about the Honeywell Rubber Cjom-pany that inevitably holds its'an- THE CAST: Hanej Lorraine Blondell Kent Adolphc Menjou Jerry Ford luck Powell Arlene Iale. Mary Ator troiyp Ellerbe.

Kihttee Will Goodwin Frank McHiiKh 4'laire Honey well. Patricia Ellis Mrs. Ellerbe Ruth Iwwinelly Hatntetter Hlirh Herbert J. B. Honeywell Grant Mitchell Orchard Hobart Cavannarti Mrs.

Kent Sheila Terry "Convention City" fills a twofold nuai convention at Atlantic City. The delegates are bent on philandering and even the temperate president succumbs when exposed to the pitfalls of the city. The plot is secondary. It's an absurd thing that brings many a laugh from the audience. The story is too conglomerate to relate.

Adolphe Menjou is the champ salesman and a good fellow who is in line for the job of sales manager. Guy Kibbee is the other DIVORCE PLANNED BY.DORIS KENYON El Paso. Dec. 22 CU.R). Doris Ken yon, motion pictura actress, en route today to Ixs Angeles, revealed herr that Fha intends to divorce her husband.

Arthur Hopkins. New York, real estate broker. Miss Ilenyon aii she did wot intend wed again. purpose. first National makes this film an opportunity to poke a little fun at commercial conven-tions and to put to work most of STARTS TODAY at 9:30 A.M.! Renate Mueller and Willy Fritsch head the cast of "Saigon In Kairo," at the 79th Street Theatre.

By WANDA HALE. women and the state affairs must bo remedied. "Saison In Kairo," a UFA production, directed by Reinhold Schunzel and presented at the 79th Street Theatre. They agree that the Count must marry lobby's mama, and set about to arrange matters to that effect. Then the fun begins.

Hil hp' itwmiXH $Wk 1 for 1 Ww Matchless MUSIC! Ravishing GIRLS! arious and ridiculous situations follow. This comedy is not only recommended to Germaa audiences THE CAST: but to all adult theatre goers. "Mr. Skitch," a Fox production, directed by James Cruze and pre sented at the Koxy Theatre. I TTVv TTVs TrTTW nuarious LAUGHS! Ai-tf MJ JLJ XI ljt lH THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTION OF Tobby Willy Fritsch Stpfanie.

Renate Mueller Leopold GuMav Waldau fliioor Blaokwell Leopoldine Konstantin Ciaoomo Ottaviani. Pointner Exzellenz Ismael Pascha Jacob Piedtke The Seventy-ninth Street Theatre is presenting to its patrons top-notch holiday entertainment. "Cairo Season" is the title of the film, which had its first American showing at this picture house last night. This Ufa production opened in Berlin last September and is etill running in the same theatre there. "Cairo Season" has all the attributes that it takes to make light comedy successful entertainment.

The plot holds consistently together; the acting is splendid; the German and Egyptian music is delightful and intriguing; the direction is deft, and the photography alone is worth a trip to the theatre. The film was made in Cairo. All the enchantment of ancient Egypt interloced with a cosmopolitan atmosphere is expressed in this picture. Smart, gay moderns, catching the age-old lure of that glamorous city in the desert, findome-thing more than just a colorful setting. The scenes are enthralling, and awaken in one the romance of the desert sands and the ageless feeling of civilization.

It gives one a feeling that things are still going on there as they did thousands of years ago. The Sphinx and the THE CAST: Mr. Skitch Will Rorert Mrs. Stiu-h. ZaSu PitU EmUr Skitch Rochelle Hudson Flo Desmond Cohen Harry Green Harvey Denbjr Charles Starrett Clift Morn weather.

Pallet ta The Old Roxy's show this week is "just right" holiday entertainment for the entire family; "Mr. Skitch," Walt Disney's "Lullaby Land" and "Jack in the Beanstalk" on the screen, a unique display of toys and books for big and little children on the balcony, which has been converted into a gigantic playland, and a ectacular Yule-tide pageant on th utage. "Mr. Skitch," Will Rogers' latest starring vehicle, is a human and amusing little comedy. To heighten the comedy of the picture, Fot has given this star ZaSu Pitts for the leading support and they are a laugh provoking pair.

Taken from "Green Dice," by Anne Cameron, the story is about a Missouri family who, after losing their savings is a bank failure, start out for California in a ram-shackel car to replenish the family fortune. Their wanderings through tourists camps across the I with RUTH ETTING GLORIA STUART DAVID MANNERS and'tht Goldwyn Girls Released thru UNITED ARTISTS us to build anything their equal. Though new, mixed crowds have swooped down upon the city of the Pharaohs, the muezzin still chants in the minaret, calling the Egyptians to worship. "Cairo Season" is an amusing little story of the mix-up that comes when a conscientious young business man schemes for his gay widowed mama to marry the philandering papa of an upright young Countess, while mama and papa are anticipating a match between a and daughter. Willy Fritsch and Renate Mueller, possibly the most popular German film stars of the day, have the leading roles and they carry Howl at Eddie's adventures as the weak-kneed grocery clerk who became, the lion-hearted charioteer in Caesar's time a grand character in a human story in a setting of shimmering beauty and unparalleled splendor! Rockies to the Yellowstone Park and on to California lead them into numerous funny and pathetic adventures and finally back to Missouri.

Mr. Skitch is a perfect role for Will Rogers; it allows him to philosophize to his heart's content and to the delight of his fans. The part of Mrs. Skitch is one we like to see ZaSu take, as she is much funnier wken the burden of carrying a picture doesn't rest on her shoulders. Pretty Rochelle Hudson and good-looking Charles Starrett furnish a pleasing romance and one of the amusing sequences of "Mr.

Skitch" is where Florence Desmond impersonates ZaSu and other screen stars. The picture was ably directed by James Cruze from the screen play by Ralph Spence and Sonya Levien. The photographer deserves praise for his gorgeous shots of the Yellowstone Park. Planned to entertain old and young, the Roxy Christmas show on the stage is set in five brilliant scenes. The rising curtain takes the tpectator to Kris Kringle's jungle where Capt.

Proske's live tigers display their prowess. After a gay and fantastic jungle ballet their parts with their customary ease and grace. This is the first picture that Fritsch has made in a year and he is still as charming as ever. Lovely Renate Mueller lives up to her precedence as the Better of fashions in Germany. Leopoldine Konstantin and Gustav Waldau give adequate support to Fritsch and Mueller.

Tobby (Willy Fritsch) is keenly interested in the business left by his father and very much disgusted that his mother indulges in flirtations." Stephanie Renate Mueller) whom Tobby has chanced to meet in Cairo, is in a similar position. Her father, Count Weilding, cannot resist a pretty face. He is spending the family fortune on i 17.Jfc,i.aav,i,r,g. imiiMnr- 3 A iT" UNITED ARTISTS ilTS fs'kU; Mi ll 1 "SVV? kiumber, the scene shifts to a Ul quaint Dresden china shop where strange and animated toys of all descriptions present a dream.