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rO smadimammoftinetoosmalliklasimm44441444441111104 --Aikhiliimanwes41441441161mumopos Olt anstaimman alb 11 'ICANSAS CITY STAR SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5 1933 4M M111EkOMN "STA1 Li FAIR" AT Tile UPTOWN IS CROWDED WITH LOVABLP HUMAN CHARACTERS ward is a thing of great beauty mis Waynward was imported from land for the part She is the Luca Hollywood sensation hing of great beauty Mile was imported from le part She is the latoa se nstiCon C- I 5 141 ter aCOtiOn gicture Reviews via Dick Arlen is showing a bit ot eray on his temples which makes a many of us feel like character men Helen Twelvetrees will retoce Carole Lombard as the leading wow an in "Bed Time story" the ni Chevalier picture Adrienne Ames will have the second woman' part Paramount will co-star George Haft and Sylvia Sidney in a picture called "Pickup" is showing a bit ol gray pies which makes a feel like character men rwelvetrees will rep! ce ibard am the leading wow Time Story" the ni picture Adrienne amen he second woman' part nt will co-star George Raft Sidney in a picture called Fair" Marty Tr Pk Janet Ottyrot Anal Proke Will It ogc rs Pat Otibert 1 ew A res lemilv 'Imre Sa Ilv Wavne NormanFoster ite-W r-si Ire Will It Pat Gilbert 1 ew A res Emile Jo ce Salle Filers Wavne Norman Foster 1 and concerning whom he has the most caddish intentions When he becomes too obnoxious even for a well ordered dive and it is necessary 1 for the bouncer to clout him Madame! Blanche discovers this young libertine is her own son This is what the grandfather has made of the baby he said she was not good enough to touch We are willing to join the highbrow critics in saying this is a theatrical hoicey Situation but we are not one to quarrel with the theater for i being theatrical As Miss Dunne interprets the emotions of a woman who has allowed herself to be shoved into a disreputable profession rathel than endanger the life of her son we found her acting very moving indeed We must admit that her disappointment with the son and her timid el- forts to influence him toward a better life seemed infinitely pathetic There was a choke in our throat for her when we saw her trying to ward oil: the girl's father when he arrived on the scene full of righteous fury and we ahared her anxiety as she heard the two engaging in a life and death struggle Although she continued to command our sympathy we wished the picture might have been concluded without a courtroom scene which seemed to have been lifted bodily from "Madame and we were a bit astounded when the eloquent prosecutor (C Henry Gordon) seemed more interested in justice than in winning his case although we know little'of the French courts It is the prosecutor who sees through the sacrificing perjury of the nioter and the cowardly perjury of the son A happy ending is brought about with change the United )f heart rt ea tn es the youth who has been brought up in the luxury of a baronet having a with Madame happily agog over the prospect of returning Blanche Trade publications indicate Josef von Sternberg (or Joe Stern) bee got himself into quite a tangle with the movie executives If the state ment of Ernst Lubitsch printed in the Hollywood Herald is to be credited right is entirely on the side of the movie magnates There has been much ducking or responsibility over that sorry Moyle "The Blonde Venus" a picture which made a certain amount of money because of Marlene Dietrich's star value but which represented Para mount's low water mark of Writing and direction Sternberg's state ments have tended to blame the studio manager Schuiberg to Interferences According to Lubitsch Sternberg and Marlene wrote tine story and asked the studio to my them $25000 for it Half this de mend was collected he bays The picture was filled with objectionable scenes and bad film editing which Schulberg tried to correct Atte! Schulberg went to New York Stern berg is said to have reinserted some of the objectionable material in the released print ublications indicate Josef Derg (or Joe Stern) tale executives It the State into quite a tangle with lat Lubitsch printed in the Herald is to be credited ttirely on the side of the is been much ducking of ty over that sorry movie le Venus" a picture which ertain amount of money Marlene Dietrich's star which represented Para water mark of writing tion Sternberg's state re tended to blame the lager Schuiberg tor es According to Lubitsch and Marlene wrote this asked the studio to pay 00 for It Half this de collected he says The filled with objectionable I bad film editing which tried to correct Atte! went to New York Stern to bave reinserted some ectionable material in the Whoa Flake Loulit Dresser Siorek (her Frank Cra yen The Darker Victor Joe" Harry Ware Frank on Eamereada'a Owner Erville Aldereon Nue Brie Dike of Flosedale A farm story that brings city relief HERE is one of the best movies you will see in many a long day A movie packed with humor and human interest The Fox Company which made it advertises it as containing "enough stars for eight pictures enough pictures for eight stars" What is still better each star is cast to a role that fits his or her personality so that the audience Is able to completely forget the star system and to plunge itself Into a story of real folks It will be seen that Fox went the whole hog on this production Indeed the whole hog comes near stealing the picture for the hog is Blue Boy a prize-winning Hampshire from Iowa' and a Cassanova of the animal kingdom You will find farmers neither tragic nor ridiculed in "State Fair" the story of a family that piles into its Ford truck for an annual week of frenzy and revelation around the stock judging pens and along the midway Old Abel Frake moves up to the fair grounds with Blue Boy a grunting lumbering hog which has been made cleaner than any member of the fam- I ily since they merely were bathed 1 but Blue Boy was "bathed and cur-1 red" curried with a hairbrush swiped' from Ma Frake Blue Boy proves to be an emotional hog He lies down Immediately upon arriving at the fair wi1A A Z'4 4' 4 '-eZ VP' Oro rnt 4-4 fft e- 417: ilw111410z tt4 os-t 4 4444-k3044 xs 4- 117 1-- 1 tios44t49-- 41 fo1-477 -L4: iy deittvve 4 c4 04 14 4 11 4ii 1 1144 14 40 k0 Wk 40Ol ir tii 7 41ik ''tiV 41-1: it 404zes4 1'Nikki 414t 4 4 komit 11 t'4 4 I 1 0IF 14 gt' 14--'vtr- 4 tJ 1 1 Zs' 1 -1 4 144No 4k 477 1 rf '1 4' 4 f' 1 it' 414e1k 1151 --4-4iNA1- 4 4 41 i I 41 r04-4 4 Thkl 4" t3 ft 4 is'''044' i ItiN44-- 4 404 ''''N 14 tit i i 4 0 1N 1 Nt '''11'k Iliiel 4 8 i 0 r47 it' 4411Ani: 5 i tiolk l'' 1J 4 tit ii lirlIti4I ei- At 1 1 1 1 el Itt '1' 4 i tip o4 kr: 9 trt1 iv" FTT IA 0 t's: 4 4 S''''''''' 1 '17''''''''' l' 'If' 4 4 toi 00 1 iAQ: 4 1 II 0 a I 7 rn lot 44 I41I' 1 4 1 4 i fir4W4k44 4t I' i' Y11 i tli44 ''( 4 S4 1 skW---- it 1 V'' '-01111104''' '41 tf0' It t--A-k 4t il 1-t Ate ''4k-IF 44 4 10''ks'14it3C o1- kk: (-7 i kRki-sv) 1 f''''''t''' 1 '''11 I tIkr4e40 4: 'e'' (4teti 1 '''4 ro' '11' 1- "''i tk 4 A 440l 1i :7 4 74h4 't 4 e4 "'441 1 s-i 4 i'g 4 ovo- 41 '1 et -4 -e4e4 gt Joi i -4 i 4-41rAq 4 -c's k114 J4 on- -Nigh 1 6 0 --g t-'t '4 111 44'' 1 41'4 kr f)t 2 111447s 14: --or4 leA''i WAIF'" f4e 0 ''VZ'4 1110 i ::47 A 1 0664 lfs VT' 7 '-ef''''' iii Ati: e0- 1 40a :4410: rlb' ''t: o- 00114- 04v A -troir 0 Aku war so iA 4 '''t --4- i 4 Nr110 4 Z41 te4s Ait 4t4 1:1 -40911-f- krrS) 04 J44 0-- 4 tk IYO' k411' -i 1 ''f: $0 1 iA4swe Asi)1Agoz 43' e4 l'ff' 'HION '4 Pite 're' 1'1 0 -pox iv i7 --ec-l iI T-L Fl 1- 2' tlt 44 i 141' i '''1 1 1- 4 Vot t't': iic 4 $: 4 fis'4 74-- fiS i -44 tfr 'i iiiiir At 11 V''? '11Mall 1'' -4' r4''': 4 ''A'' 4 'E: lW 047 4 te 4c 4 44 itY 'ii- 0100 )4 ''t'A 1 :1 'TE iiAll" f- I -M1 i-ltJ 1 tn --Ket 1 -v 'I" I '1'r'mrl'i s4 Ei411 ti A i ii -fr ioi 1: t--itzitA: 44 i z4- 1 il Aw and the card ta! to tleory "It's a al Finge: inucidlec a been in aims ti las bee mind c( netheth lothing idding (vitae Ished 4ut Antal hb this Irade Y1'c1-4yeab Tue Ida rkPtil 65: 5W Bell clz li: We pecii LA 1 Tonle 17321 NI the card ta' to tieory "It's oam Fillge: muddles teen istence rims In ti las heel mind c( nethodi iothing egulate -anie 13 'et Aloe this bade iVhist Tuelds 1 rkPat cht We Pric Beat -pea LA Ag I71 -1 1 1 1 1 I 1 4 1 1 I 1 4 1 award but the prize for the sweet and sour pickles as well This transports Melissa into a seventh heaven that crowns the delights of whirling gayly around on a merry-go-round while arrayed in a frumpish hat of munching popcorn while placidly accompanying her husband to eye the hootchi dancers Of wrestling with Herculean enthusiasm over a cook Herculean enthusiasm over a COOK I but the prize for the sweet our pickles as well This trans Melissa into a seenth heaven crowns the delights of whirling around on a merry-go-round arrayed in a frumpish hat of hing popcorn while placidly ac ing her husband to eye the hi dancers of retlng ith iny wsi lean enthusiasm over a cook Lwae Storts frgiolibtla41( Cleveland who dances gracefully and puts the finishing touch on the affair by a bit of deft mimicry Bolger eccentric dancer and comedian combines intricate steps with a political satire that has the house howling His rubber-legged antics brighten up his act and make a splendid climax Given a Miss Eleanor Whitney of Cleveland he would pack them in four times a day Other adequate acts are Gloria Lee and the Sherr brothers who do some nice acrobatic dancing and Lee-Port and Dotty funsters and dancers Gwynne magician gives some brain-teasing demonstrations with a lot of brightly colored rags floating all over the place puts the finishing touch on Cleveland ho dances gracefu wll ti fair by a bit of deft mimicry Bolger eccentric dancer and dian combines intricate steps political satire that has the I howling His rubber brighten up his act and Eleanor Whitney of Clevelan splendid climax Given a would pack them in four times I Other adequate acts are Glori and the Sherr brothers who do nice acrobatic dancing and Le and Dotty funsters and da Gwynne magician gives some I teasing demonstrations with a brightly colored rags floating al the place qi Merle Tottenham (she says 'Tot really owes her presence in Hollywood to her ability to giggle She's among the movies new per sonalities a "discovery' of 1932 but one who does not make her bow until next year An English girl in Ler mid-twenties Merle was playing in the London "Cavalcade" company when scouts looking for players for the film saw and heard her They decided they'd have to have Miss Tottenham if only becawe her giggle made audiences laugh When the picture was completed Miss Tottenham was asked to remain She can act as well as giggle Merle Tottenham is most impressed by Hollywood's informal serve-your self dinners "In England" she says you always sit and are served It's a terrible custom too because at a large party your meat is cold by the time the vegetables and gravy arrive Here by waiting on yourself your plate is filled immediately "And you can pick your own table partners--something you cannot do at a formal dinner" Most of morie's career has been de Dttenham (she says 'Tot ally Owes her presence in to her ability to giggle long the movies new pee a "discovery" of 1932 but )es not make her bow until An English girl in her es Merle was playing in in "Cavalcade" company ts looking for players for and heard her they'd have to have nham if only becawe her 'e audiences laugh When was completed Miss Tot 3A asked to remain She well as giggle ttenham is most impressed Deed's informal serve-yours and" she says "you always served It's a terrible because at a large party Is cold by the time the and gravy arrive Here by yourself lour plate is filled can pick your own table you cannot do at erie' career has Lieu! de As stove Yes Melissa has a time The Fox company made unsuccessful efforts to borrow Marie Dressler for this role Much as we admire I Miss Dressler we are inclined to Yes Melissa has a time Fox company made unsuccess to borrow Marie' Dressler his role Much as vve admire Dressler we are inclined to Secret of Madame Blanche" Sally Irene Dunne Leoard St John Phillips Holmes Aubtey St John Lionel Atwell Vila Una Merkel Leonard Jr Douglas Walton State Prosecutor Henry Oordon Eloise Jean Parker Duval Mitchell Lesna A fine performance and a strong situation enable Irene Dunne to convert a trite story into another personal triumph MADELON CLATIDET lies a-mouldering in the grave but Secret Madame Blanche" sally Ph Leoard St John Irene II illips si John Ltonel Mc A voted to playing Kitchen maids anti the like She hopes Hollywood laying titchen maids anti She hopes Hollywood grounds spurning the choicest mash think the casting of Louise Dresser remaining unstirred by either the pep in the part was more fortunate talks of Abel Frake or the music of Dressler would have had to be the hottest band in the county Marie Dressler bih Miss Dresser is Within the porky sides of Blue Boy simply a simple-hearted beaming there beats the heart of a great guileless farm body that you will love lover When Esmerelda a shapely as you adore your own capable-little sow with a red head waddles bosomed strong-armed Aunt Maggie into the barns Blue Boy with many Then there are the children Margy a passionate grunt and rumble broad- and Wayne Here is where the movie casts the sentiments that stir his might have fallen down but Mr King bosom From that moment on Abel in his directing has captured Mr Frake is kept on pins and needles by Stong's ability to make his characters Blue Boy's habit of falling into a state rural without making them of emotional exhaustion every time vaudeville hicks Norman Foster's Esmerelda passes his pen At last characterization of the farm boy there comes the great moment when Wayne is one of the best things in the two most distinguished pigs in the the picture Somehow he managed to state are introduced by its most dis- shake himself cksr of Hollywood's tinguished senator who while ex- pet sophistry that clean young tolling the qualifications of a grand man is a sap (I often have heard ex-champion boar proves himself some- ecutives voice this in story confer-thing of a grand champion bore ences) and to make the story of Screen history presents no love scene i Wayne's first affair have a youthful so stirring as the one in which the sort of tenderness that is most aplagging Blue Boy finding the admir- pealing Wayne having been rooked trig eyes of Esmerelda upon him stays out of $8 by a concessionnaire the In the ring and with his challenging year before has practiced throwing grunts piercing the atmosphere wins his mother's crochet hooks until he the grand championship is perfect In the quarrel that en-Winfred Sheehan who controls the 1 sues the girl an acrobat comes to think the casting of Louise Dresser 1 in the part was more fortunate )f I Marie Dressler would have had to be Marie Dressler bu Miss Dresser is simply a simple-hearted beaming it guileless farm body that you will love as you adore your own capable bosomed strong-armed Aunt Maggie LY Then there are the children Margy L- and Wayne Here is where the movie Is might have fallen down but Mr King in his directing has captured Mr IY Stong's ability to make his characters rural without making them vaudeville hicks Norman Foster's st of the farm boy ri Wayne is one of the best things in ie the picture Somehow he managed to shake himself cksr of Hollywood's pet sophistry that clean young man is a sap a often have heard executives voice this in story confer Ing eyes of Esmere Ida upon him stays out of $8 by a concessionnaire the In the ring and with his challenging year before has practiced throwing grunts piercing the atmosphere wins his mother's crochet hooks until he the grand championship is perfect In the quarrel that en-Winfred Sheehan who controls the 1 sues the girl an acrobat comes to the cast le part as more fortunate casting of Louise Dresser Dressler would have had to be Dressler Mt Miss Dresser is a simple-hearted beaming ess farm body that you will love )u adore your on capable- led strong-armed Aunt Maggie there are the children Margy Mr Rogers stops being professionally philosophic in this picture and gives a photographic and lovable interprets- tton of the American farmer One star who outranks all of these is not shown in this layout He is Dike of Rosedale a grand champion Iowa hog who appears in the role of Mr Rogers's beloved Blue Boy and who is worth his weight in laughs to the picture This is a picture for those who value entertainment 1 A cast of stars makes this one of 1 the truly notable pictures of the year The scene in the upper left shows Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres as the little farm girl who sighed to see beyond the horizon and the young re porter who brought her love with his i I premature worldliness Miss Gaynor! never has been more genuine in a role and even in Charlie Farrell she I has not found a partner as capable of portraying youthful tenderness as is Lew Ayres The upper right shows Norman Foster as the farm boy who went to the fair ignorant of life and Sally Eilers as the carnival girl who caused his great moment but was too good a sport to let him ruin himself over her The lower picture shows Louise Dresser and Will Rogers as the old folks wrapped up in the wonders of merry-go-rounds hog championships sweet pickle contests and kootch dancers A Rae of Sunshine Amid Vflude vine Gloom Sunsillne Amid vine Gloom was two or three months ago that Lola Lane virtually pre dieted the end of her marriage to Lew Ayres I Not in so many words but quite clearly to anyone who can decipher the handwriting on Hollywood's domestic walls I She was at lunch in a popular restaurant with Claudia Dell and Mae Clarke and they were talking "show I business" as people in Hollywood inevitably do Lola's interest in the topic seemed I even keener than the Ihadn't appeared before a camera 1 since the day she became Mrs Lew Ayres 1 "Co back to the screen?" the an- swered my question "I'd love to--tut it seems producers think one actor in a family in these hard times Is enough I "Yes I used to think I'd be content to be just a domestic body but I soon found out that running a household I doesn't require nearly as much time I as I have on my hands Lew is awfully sweet about it but I want to do 1 things too Of course We're perfect- 1 I ly happy 1 I And just the other day she filed suit for divorce uncontested by Lew 1 Mrs Lew Ayres will become Lola 1 Lane again continuing the career she 1 I abandoned for matrimony i most pleasing sort of amusement valentines both comic and sentimental among the situations at the Uptown her plot goes marching on It marches hand in hand with Irene Dunne this week at the Midland where that lady who is capable of ageing so artistically from sequence to sequence proves unable to maintain amid the balmy air of the French Riviera the stalwart "Cimarron" virtu which thrived so heroically on the harsh red plains of Oklahoma The story picks up Miss Dunne when as a performer in a musical revue she sails for England to appear in what sounds like a Victor Herbert operetta Although on the legitimate stage Miss Dunne was a nant when she discovers that the managers always pay the rent promptly but she already has dispatched her nephew Paul handsome and middle-aged to investigate the place Here Paul meets Madeline who is paid to dance and who informs him that partners without manicures mean runs in stockings Paul per plows her He wears a "monkey suit" although he is not a waiter and pays his money and don't even I Everybody Kate Smith Kate Smith Hunt Slake Randolph Scott Lilt Smith Sally Slane Mrs Smith Julia Swavne Gordon Mr Blair Georire Battier Jed Charles Grapewin Ett le Fern Emmett Mr Thomnson Frank Darien pleasure of the audience and the I profit of the farmers Kate comes back Just in time to participate in a mob scene and save the head of the power trust (Another Paramount scenes with Kate in 1 them require only half as many people) Kate like nearly everyone who sets out to aid the farmer rides home In a high powered motor car while the benefited farmers appear to be wearing their old clothes Just the A Fine Actress Scores Another Triumph --A 1 vt: dos t- 4 -7) A '0 -ir 014 I 1 1 i I A heavy girl in a light comedy I LIKE you immensely" say Ran- dolph Scott to Kate Smith toward the beginning of this picture It is a compliment that bs not without ac T( TILl ALTE 1 TII ALI dance "dirty" Paul explains that he 1 musical star (she played the leading doesn't do anything for a living and role in the No 2 company of "Show that his great-great-grandfather in- this is the first movie to vested his money in farms make use of her delightful singing "He was nuts eh?" says Madeline I voice We do not mean to frighten nodding you away by implying that Miss "Gee you're a funny guy" she ex- Dunne steps forth and sings "Sonny claims as they Journey homeward Boy" in the midst of a French law "ain't you even going to kiss me?" 1 court or that she warbles "No 'Count Paul does what any gentleman Man" in the face of a British peer would when he deprives her of her baby It isn't long before Paul is looking a couturier straight in the eye and AC explaining with a trifle too much sin-1 4 Air" destinies of all things at Fox offered 1 his rescue There is a week of love Blue Boy to Will Rogers after the in which the girl of the carnival picture was finished teaches the boy a great deal about "Why Mr Sheehan" Will drawled life before sending him back to the "I couldn't do nothin' like that You routine of the farm and a bride in can't eat a pig you've learned to re- his home county Sally Eilers as the spect artistically" carnival girl is both lovely to look at No doubt the pig felt the same way and sensuous without being vulgar 0out Mr Rogers They certainly But it is Margy (Janet Gaynor) who are a delightful team Mr Rogers is finds all of life at the fair As the the very spirit of the middle West in sweet little farm girl who is not too this characterization All his scenes sweet to say "rm bored as hell" Miss fit him nicely and being one of many Gaynor is so perfect as to eliminate stars he is not required to go through I the memory of "Tess of the Storm the usually silly sequences that are country That requires downright used to pad out his pictures I genius Lew Ayres is the Intellectual But while Abel Frake is working I young reporter who meets her and with Blue Boy his good wife Melissa Once again this lad has a part which who steams about her kitchen like an reveals him as the fine young actor efficient tug steaming through a har- he really is We thought he was a bor is busy with her sweet pickles better partner for Janet than Charlie her equr pickles and her mincemeat Farrell The picture deviates from It is a principle with Melissa to dis- the book by letting Janet's romance approve of liquor but when Abel tells come true After getting so steamed her that no mincemeat is good with- up over it we would have been pretty out brandy in a burst of daring she mad if the movie hadn't made that tips the bottle into it She doesn't concession to sentiment know that Abel already has spiked Frank Craven the stage star makes the mincemeat Presently we behold the small part of the storekeeper the Judges with great pomp nibbling notable like so many chipmunks at the en- "State Pair" comes along at an tries The judge who tastes Melissa's auspicious moment to remind you mincemeat becomes so pickled that that simple joys are fun as well as be not only gives her the mincemeat poetic and that you will find the tk 4 Shortly before the Ayres divorce announcement Bette Davis a bride of last August was giving her views on marriage in Hollywood She chose a childhood sweetheart Harmon Nelson a non-professional as husband 'It sounds terribly smug for an actress to say she wouldn't marry an actor" said Bette who has a head on those slim shoulders "but I think It's safer not to A lot of fine men are actors but when an actress marries one there's usually a clash Each haturally thinks his own career is most important and that leads to jealously or some other trouble I Just don't think it works out in most cases" Hollywood divorce records support that contention 4 i' 1 I ti 1 4 I2 1 1 i 1 1 1 I i 1 4 ii Miss Rae Samuels a well es a 'shed favorite with Kansas Cm vaudeville fans proves that pep aild novelty can keep that form of en tertainment as acceptable as ever in her offering at the Mainstreet give her an opportunity to "vas some fine gowns" One of the London wits suggested that after British censors got through with their murderous eliminations from the Clara Bow picture the re mainder be retitled "Call Her Sale vage" 78444 cLOttiiiit' 1" 5 -e It t- ii-sit7: 1:01 iershI): wi'''''' t'''z''' k'-'-: 4 i1" i :2 4:: 1 1 i i i i' klit 'E i'v i One of the big-shot producers remarked the other day: "My wife's hands are so beautiful I'm going to have a bust made of them" Brian Aherne has the inside trark to play the lead opposite Marlene Dietrich in "Songs of Songs" tor Paramount: He was seen in Kansas City as Robert Browning in the "Bar retts of Wimpo le Street" 1a season NOT "AUNT EPPIE" BUT COUSIN KATE At the opening of "Cavalcade" in Hollywood everyone from director to wardrobe mistress was given fulsome praise and backbreaking bows But no one thought to mention Noel Coward who wrote it Perhaps this Ignoring of the creative writer is one reason Hollywood is what it is B1 Ce OF IN 1 1 AL COUR! 4 Checi GEE MFitine RED Pt B1 Ce OF IN 1 I AL COUR! 4 Mee MI MFitine i RED I Irmm PI Even those who don't like the story of "Cavalcade" agree the performance of the beautiful Diana Wayn 1 Nancy Comes Into Iter Irene Dunne in "The Secrets of Madame Blanche" at the Midland achieves a climax that ranks with her fine work in "Cimarron" and "Back Street" same as before However its all in fun and it will be a disgruntled spectator who refuses to cheer Kate 's vie- tory Kate and Kates picture curacy since a person who couldn't like her that way would have small chance of liking her at all Most theatergoers will be inclined to agree with that sentiment since Kate's voice refined by many thicknesses of lardy lady comes mellowly to the microphone in such pleasing arias as "Moon Song" "Pickaninnie's Heaven" "Out in the Great Open Spaces" and "Twenty Million People" They are the type of songs the home folks will enjoy the type of songs Kate sings best Probably the cinema at last has found some use for the wide angle lens and the wide angle screen for Kate's jolly closeups almost bulge from the proscenium arch into the front rows of the audience as she warbles Paramount must be tempted to star Kate in a football picture1 since with a pair of shoulders like that in the line even a team such as Missouri's would have a chance at being conference champions It is a I great tribute to Kate's personality that one can look at all that flesh and still go away with a memory of her twinkling eyes The film has none of the bawling sentimentality that "Boy I'm over-assurance or that saccharine sweetness which usually accompanies' a big radio star in her screen efforts' Kate has been placed in a simple: farm setting and has been surround-ad by a cast capable of building up humorous situations around her To be sure there is the traditional hokum but it is handled very deftly There is the usual well beloved moth: erwho must be sung to but she is a human mother with a tart tongue There are the usual babies whose sweetness must be celebrated in song but they are black rolly-eyed little pickaninnies There is the usual hokum of the hardup farmers but that isn't hokum any more Most of the sure-fire materials have been handled in a way to make them resemble life Had the producers seen fit to eliminate that sure-fire gag of Kate: working with a monstrous Bible our religious sense would have suffered no great loss Kate wondering how to raise' money to finance the farmers in their fight with a public utility opens the tsweet eBr ooin kss inspiring at ns rg random Our faulty of a and gl toy ormueeatmdasonli chapter failed to retain the quotation that justified a radio career but we can think of one which might have proved prophetic to Kate's pubic: THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS SHALL BREAK FORTH BEFORE YOU INTO SINGING--Iscuah 1 55 certty that he wishes to buy some clothes for the daughter of an out-of-town friend The couturier who is something of a liar on his own account looks Paul in the eye and explains that he understands perfectly And it isn't long after that that Madeline decides that a life of what they call sin with a man she loves la preferable to a shabby virtue spent In the leering embraces of the dance hail's clientele Old Lady Mc Gonegal bawls her out smacks her one and sadly sees her depart from the paths of rectitude When Madeline's nb-account brother also smacks her Old Lady McGonegal smacks him harder for his virtue than she smacked Madeline for her sins And he had it coming Soon Madeline is broken-hearted to learn that she is to have a baby not that she 'ears motherhood but that she thialts Paul will believe she Is trying to get a "hold on him" She tells Paul she will do whatever he wants her to and Paul says he wants her to marry him The women will love Paul (John Boles) in this scene Paul demands but one condition Because he has a daughter by a previous marriage ne avoids publicity He won't permit bts name to become fodder for the tabloids The baby dies and although Paul is tender and loving hoflest little Madeline believes she has no right to his name She runs away to Agua Caliente to secure a quiet Mexican divorce Here 1 an unctuous Mexican lawyer and a cowhand named Mr Panama Kelly add materially to tne comedy and the complications Airs well in the movles that ends happily and excitingly so this picture is very satisfying indeed Nancy Carroll would be a bigger star than she is if all of her work had born up to the standard she sets in this picture Jessie Ralph as a hard-boiled and stout-hearted old dame of the Ghetto whose philosophy is summarized in "all men is mugs" and Jane Darwell as the brawny Mother McGonegal provide bellicose "belly-laughs" to use an unrefined but highly expressive term of the theater There is not a character in the plcture but who earns his salt by providing at least a couple of humorous 1 On the stage the Mainstreet this week headlines those two bright vaudevilliens Rae Samuels and Ray Bolger Both present splendid acts and keep busy every minute Miss Samuels already widely known to Kansas City because of numerous visits Winb new supporters by her energetic routine her new and clever ly turned songs and the fact her act never drags Adding to the act is winsome Miss Eleanor Whitney of rprit 17 ha ha withaa h1117 anrn a We firmly believe and we passionately hope those days have vanished from the screen forever Miss Dunne sings Only at logical moments once I in the revue and once in a cafe se quence The way she puts over a French music hall ditty makes us wonder if she shouldn't be co-starred with Maurice Chevalier some time When Irene gets to England it isn't long before she is learning that a 1 pre-Raphaelite of the late Victorian era can do a girl snore harm than any Yancy Cravat on a mustang or 1 any financier who lay in wait on Street" The late Victorian Is wasp-waisted willowy Phillips Holmes who in top hat ascot cra- I vat and languishing manner looks exactly as though he had been out for a stroll with Oscar Wilde and James McNeal Whistler At first Mr Holmes attempts to sin daintily In the manner of the times but before long love enters his mauve soul and he marries the heroine Most students of the drama must have noted that when a man desires to be heroic he usually can accomplish it with inconvenience to no i one save himself and perhaps one obliging villain With women it is different In order to produce a heroine it usually is necessary for a 1 half score of men to go decadent immediately and to accomplish villainies that defy logic and defeat sense This is the case with Sally phillips's father Aubrey St John Esq worships his name more than any St John before him (and they have included some pretty fine people) This Mr St John drives his son to suicide because be disapproves of his marriage tears the baby from the mothers arms puts her out and attempts to let her be perjured to the guillotine His son killed himself in a fit of pre Haphaelite melancholy because he loved his wife so much he'd do any- thing except work for her Had the young man been willing to work this tragedy never would have happened This was before the depression with its attendant unemployment There must have been plenty of employ- I ment in the Victorian era Surely it required thousands of men and horses) to turn out all those hair- cloth sofas Sally with the passing of the years1 has become a sharp-faced creature called Madame Blanche who operates I a questionable hotel and restaurant on one of the side streets of Paris To this place one night there goes on insolent drunken young British soldier accompanied by a sweet di' lage girl who obviously adores him 'a :74 '1: 24 4 4 a a tt 't i vfj1 a 10 4 4r' VtifkA Ag0404wWk3r5S1 Cti''1 '14 AriP c' 44 i si cl71x4 10164 1 10 A4 4 te: 1 1 1- 0'0 r' I ii I 1t -krt14 )- -fi' i ''441 A 'Ir'' i 4'V AI 's ri 1 41' 4 4 4-4'''''' '4 ''4 1' i''' 4'' 4 40 4 -'1''': It 1 r1 '--'7 1 1 tx yovI 4 -h 'I Ll'5 4 ai LI I I roamstaaamazmik41: i 41 'fr itif i I 111- 1 el 1111( 011( 4-' 14 '1 14 :4 ::12 AoettC7- -b 4 1 i 4 41 of Manhattan" Madeline Mettonettal NAM" Carroll Paul Vanderkill John Boles Ecaleston Warburton Gamble Aunt Sonhie Clara rilanclick Mrs Mc Gotteall Jane Game II Buddy Clary Owen Luc Betty Grable Bust amente Luis Alberini Aunt M1111P Jessie Paloh Panama Kelly eBuck JarPS Duleev Limited Tyler Brooke Louise Betty Kendall 4 1 1 it I 1 1 4 -1 1 I ri I I I :1 f' i 1 1 '1 1 11 1 l'- 4i I 1 1 11 1'1 I i 11 4 4 i 1 A '1'Iibeaentmume '-P i '''i Virn 11'-' i4) Vkeit: i -'t 1 l's i Itik: 4 lil' igi I ti" '41 1- efs 1 4407: 4 rez 0 0: 1 "It1'''i flq -74 A 4 cill ''31' i--'i' '4N7411: '11 7: 4 I 'i I Cecil De Mille beamed with pride al the "Sign of the Croce Justly Consensus of opening night opinion was that it was an excellent picture of its kind Paradoxically this religious spectacle brought foi some of the season's funniest one of which we quote wish we could remember who said it to give him "screen credit" During intermission a fellow rushed up and said: "Don't you think Alison Skip worth is marvelonts as 'Nero'?" lene Dietrich who wears men's clothes because "they are more comfortable" stood around in full evening drt4 (plus you can imagine how comfortable THAT was Wills anyway a famous star glimpsing Iv remarked that she probably wore those exaggerated coats because bet shoulders are so large Whereupon Cortez answered her hips are so larger Or did he say hips? Every alert Southerner I am as sured by one of them has wondertd many times why scenario writers persist in using "you all" as a sin gular form of address The expression is used only when two or more persons are spoken to of course in the movies and sometimes on the stage The latest such offense occurs in '774 Busy to Work" In that a mammy addresses Will Rogers CI "you all" instead of "you" Technical flaws such as this one when discovered by the critical often rob pictures of their intended enter tainment value Persons acquainted with legal Pro' cedure can find fault with met courtroom sequences as Hollywood depicts them Stories of newspoPer life lead the layman to believe it 0 all drama and no sleep In defense perhaps Hollywood would call it dramatic liberty Joan Crawford will have SS 1111 first war story one written especiall Ins' het called "Today We Live She's an ambulance driver and Owl COoper is top sergeant A thoroughly entertaining HERE'S the Cinderella story presented as it might happen in real life At least we hope it sometimes happens this way for everyone concerned in this romance of a mil A24 lionnire and a dance ball girl is pretty decent thoroughly human and there are no villains save misunderstandings i It all comes about when Aunt 1St pine Vanderkill multimillionaire Pretty Irish Miss Carroll in "Child of Manhattan" finds a comedy-drama better suited to her talents than were many of the roles she acted during the days of her stardom at Paramount John Boles and a cast of expert comedians assist her in making this picture a delightful bit of entertainment -I However the movie scriptures tact-Radios Kate Smith is the biggest woman in seven counties and a fully say the right thing at the right wect voice from the barnyard in dila() Everybody" the rural entertain- time and Ichte departs for a radio mert et the liewznan Ilex radio public will like it career in the great city to the 1 discovers that a dance hall occupies Ione of her buildings and that the posters show girls dancing in lampshades Aunt Sophie is less indig UUb 00Fill 15 1C85 inalg ZOO 1 11111111110111110 UMW 1 A 441'V' '''''-'1---' 4 1) tv' Is- 1 0 ia OP 'ii.