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The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 39

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In circumstances like these would rather be right than be President Who wouldn't?" he asks "All the President can do is to figure out ways to take on some more men while the handsome -iI Juvenile of a revue worries about how he can pick up more girls" Its all explained in 'Duck Soup" at the Newman and if you ever meet 4 he may explain the explanation I 4 i 'Is I nder in it I nexealtn Is 23 JOAN CRAWFORD Joan kicks a dent in her high hat and comes back in a picture her ins will love in "Dancing Lady" at the Midland Clark Gable Franchot one and that king of revue dancers Fred Astaire are in the supporting cast Joan kidl ins will Inv( one and tha ANN HARDING The lovely blonde has the role of a feminine Dr Arrowsmith mum Right to Romance" at the Mainstreet this week Her matrimonial affairs in the picture are as tangled as they have been in private life -111 Clara Bow Now Is Content To Be a Vampire Once a Year I better actress when I'm fat only nobody wants to see me that way" Aloqe Stardom Is "an Awful Bother and a Lot of Work" to the Young 'Woman Who Finds Enjoyment in Eating What She Pleases and Being Just Plain Mrs Rex Bell Housewife per's new of a line we a riere merit even if it contained no musical numbers But 'it does contain musical numbers and those numbers are good enough to make the picture outstanding as a musical film so you really get two good shows for the price of one The songs include "Let's Go Bavarian" "Heigh Ho" "Everything I Have Is Yours" "That's the Rhythm of the Day" and "Dancing Lady" Joan's dancing is excellent and her dancing partner Is no less a personage than Fred Astaire one of the greatest living hoofers If there is any complaint to be made of the film it is that you don't see enough of this nimble-footed fellow In fact the picture ends with you still wanting to see more of Joan Crawford Which is a good way to end any picture alption Oicture Qeviews (c17( Rt the means by which his tuition is paid There is not even a scene where he says weakly: "Really dear I don't think you ought to do this" Preston Foster who scored such a success in "The Man Who Dared" has the role of the barker-father but Jimmy Gleason is the only member of the cast other than Clara to score with the audiences It takes a star of real popularity to put such a thing over Clara probably will single file while one brother pulls their helmets off so that the other brother may sock them on the head brought Doug Fairbanks a big laugh when he used it in "Robin Hood" Possibly a critic with a long memory is as great a curse to the motion picture industry as is a comedian with a too retentive mind Every day actors are using time-worn jokes and business but the Marx brothers have based their entire careers on claims to originality They have been so original that when they become iinitative it is news It indicates that something is wrong One suspects that they miss their old director Norman McLeod and one also suspects that they need to get away from Hollwood and the 50-cent slot machines of the Colony Club They need to renew their contact Witil audiences "You'll have a gala day" Groucho's patroness tells him "A gal a day should be enough for any man" cracks back He needs more lines like that 11 to oo pia" 1u Clara Row Vttr Preston FOAter Chris Richard Cremsell Han Herbert munthn fern' 14 riles Giesson Carrie Minna Goinbeil Cara in all her orientalplender Uptoi triti HOP ferrv Carrie Clara in i dor the bulging suitcase by sitting down on it She locked out the window and By JOHN mormr I said 'Keeping house is a big job A MERICAN national holidays I and anything that interrupts it makes now include Christmas it just that much harder" Thanksgiving the Fourth of Clara was warming up to her sub-July and Clara Bows annual 1 pot now vamping 4 1 "I guess I'm the only housewife in Time was when Clara and her sex the United States" she said "who appeal ranked with food clothing and has to stop wrestling skillets and shelter as one of the staples of pub- 1 making beds once a year to become lic existence but Clara made herself 1 the national passion You might scarce after the uproar that sent think it would be a relief but it isn't Daisy DeBoe to prison and since then There's so many things you want to she has made herself rare appearing do around a house especially a on the screen only once a year ranch house The pillows for the an annual vamp all right" she ing room divan need stuffing or the said the other day as she cleared bedroom curtains need turning and out her dressing room at the Fox just when you think you finally have studios "The last retake on 'Hoop- a minute to do It you've got to time la' is finished and I'm plain Mrs Bell out to be a vamp It's a bother and until next year I feel just like the its darned uncomfortable" cook does after she gets Thanksgiving "Uncomfortable?" dinner for the family and all the 'Yeah uncomfortable You see I'm Lady" Janie Joan Crawford Patch Gallagher Clark Gable Tod Newton Franchot Tone A Dancing Partner Fred Astaire Mrs Beaton May Robton Posetee Winnie Lightner Ward King Robert Benchlev Sieve Ted Healy The Author Sterling Holloway Bradley Grant Mitchell Junior Maynard Holmes A glamorous Joan Crawford movie that brings Joan back to the orefront of entertainers sY: 1 i-14 1 4 i4 i i 1 0 1 i 1 1 11 1 mfr '1 1 't 'I 1 il to- 1 It 10 'i f' Of 1 41 1 4 11 I 1 0 i I -4 i- lif 4 i il" I 1 tt I 1 tit ttt 1" 1:: 1 i 0 I i I I I i i 1 i' i I 1' i 1 2 4 1t it -t 1-4 4f s' I -1 11 I 1 4 -I' 1 I I 1 I 111 si 1 i 6 i 1 1 1( 11 0 I i I I 1 1 i I i i I 1 II 1 1 1 i 1 a w' 11 1 i i 1 0 'g 1 I 1 1 1 I A 1 i i 1 4 It 5 0 Right to Romance" Harding 1 az iLa biKSittl LIdid was wing rem A Triumph of Diet niscent When you see Clara as the HonkyLea rned With Joan Cran ford' tonk hooch dancer in "Hoopla" you I 'It's funny" she said "I rerlly will find it difficult to believe that i learned a lot during those dizzy years this luscious figure is a triumph of I 1 when lemon juice and whole wheat toast Joan Crawford and I were run It is not the figure of an easy going ling around town as the two hey hey girls of Hollywood Nobody thought I was learning anything It gbiorulsewho housewife ha nsorbe is enittetn he the movie cameras It is the figure seems rather funny to think that I years before eoffo a Mae West probably wished she had was a sort of trademark for the flap for those corseted scenes before the per The 'flapper' as a type seems tent show crowd in 'Tin No Angel" about as antiquated aS the suffragette I Mae's careful photography and use 1 or the vestal trirgin but I can remem of veils made it obvious that her fig- 1 ber when the whole country wal ure was achieved by expert engineer- I standing on its ear over flappers ing with whalebone and laces You 1 "They yelled about us in the pulcan be certain that Clara has no pits and long-haired guys denounced concealed corset in "Hoopla" she us in the press They made a world scarcely wears enough to conceal a menace out of us and all we were poker chip was a bunch of dizzy little gals with our skirts up to our ktsges and with 'It seems kinda silly" she says Fiji Island haircuts It ems sort of "for a married woman to go to all funny that anyone should have taken that trouble to show her legs when she's just gonna get fat again Rex us seriously But boy you should didn't want me to take this part have seen some of the 'sinner be He'd rather I did my acting with letters I got" I asked her if she had seen Jean skirts on I'd rather do it that way Harlow in "Blonde Bombshell" which but in show business you've got to is supposed to have been based on preserve a professional attitude I her life told Rex that if society girls in the "No" She slid "but I bear it's Junior League can show their legs pretty good Jean Harlow's a good Once a year I guessed nobody'd die of actress I suppose she made it funny shock if Old Lady Bow did it and they say the plot was pretty flee 'Rex accused me of enjoying show- I tic That sounds like my life" ing myself off Then I got a little i Clara grinned sore He knew darned well I was -my life in Hollywood contained doing it because we could use the plenty of uproar" she said "1111 money these days Who can't?" sorry for a lot of it but not awfully 1 Start in tin the Food sorry I never did anything to hurt Already Clara was beginning to put anyone else I made a place for myself 1 weight back on She confided that on the screen and you can't do that by i hil tf being Alcotrs idea of a little ShP aortati 1 Ati 4 she had started the -ps mt tilcOtt 5 mea IA a HUM giggled Ciara was being remit niscent Learned With Joan Craaford' 'It's funny" she said "I reslly learned a lot during those dizzy years when Joan Crawford and I were run ling around town as the two hey hey girls of Hollywood Nobody thought I was learning anything It seems rather funny to think that I was a sort of trademark for the flapper The 'flapper' as a type seems about as antiquated ea the suffragette or the vestal rirgin but I can remem ber when the whole country was standing on its ear over flappers "They yelled about us in the pulpits and long-haired guys denounced us in the press They made a world menace out of us and all we were was a bunch of dizzy little gals with our skirts up to our kfttes and with Fiji Island haircuts It ems sort of funny that anyone should have taken us seriously But boy you should have seen some of the 'sinner letters I got" I asked her if she had seen Jean Harlow in "Blonde Bombshell" which is supposed to have been based on her life "No" she said "but I hear it's pretty good Jean Harlow's a good 's Ct I 1 4 4 4 t- 's tt 41 ti I 11 I Bob Prebble Robert Young Dr Repo ling Nils Asther Lee Joyce Sari Writ Zit Dr Beck Irving pichel Mr Macy Bramwell Fletcher Soup" Rufus Firefly Grourho Marx Chico Ilnl 4 Chico Marx Brownie Marx Bob Roland Zeno Marx Vera Marta! Raquel Torres Ambasador Tren6no Louts CChem Mrs Teasdale Margaret Dumont The Marx Brothers burlesque a mythical kingdom and fail to trump their earlier efforts THE best effects in the new Marx Brothers comedy are not done with mirrors but were inspired by one The big laugh occurs when Harpo masquerades as and tries to inpersonate his reflection in a looking glass is suspicicus and his efforts to catch his dubious reflection in a lie are highly diverting at the scene one that could PERSONAL ITEM: Miss Joan Crawford has returned to the motion picture profession and the American public after an ex- tended stay with the Pickford- Fairbanks royal family of the screen Friends hope she is here to stay CLARA BOW orHE screen of late has been intensely preeiecupied with the subject of torso-tossing and the public hasn't speared to be exactly bored with the 'Jiject Therefore interest should at fever heat when it is learned at Clara Bow having emerged from annual diet has set forth the listings and turnings of a hooch incer together with her divers 'art throbs sorrows Joys and Inklaneous emotions in a film which nables thee heroine to twitch her ly from the canvas fronts of a hick 'red carnival to the Century of 'rogress exposition in Chicago Clara having somehow disposed of 'e flesh which the public didn't want look at has managed to do wonPrs with what is left If you are a strained soul who permits yourself ly one muscle dance a season Clara's 15 yip) 4 NKE OF- yOu" HEac inten the and -ared to be ubject The at fever at Clara Bo sr annual wistings an atm toge' cart throbs laneous err nables the ay from the 'met earniv mgress expc Clara havil flesh whic look at hi hrs with will -strained sol hly one musc cc5 4dI 5 Vir7) NICE OF- yOu" you are one of those who thought Joan Crawford was through or who thought La Belle Harlow was while lookin muscling her out of movie popularity' might sustret have a look at "Dancing Lady" at the I 41 tic Midland and know you were wrong In this picture Joan does not imitate Hepburn She does her greatest 414 While looking might suspnt Ann Harding in a satisfactory romantic drama AGIRL that wants to meet a man can always call the doctor unless she's a doctor herself That's the predicament 'Ann Harding is in at the Mainstreet this week Ann portrays a famous plastic surgeon who is forced to raise her own eyebrows when her collegiate husband flunks his domestic science He's a varsity peter who just can't confine his necking to the home team When he trifles with Sari Maritza Ann does not become an old meanie and refuse to sign his report card She merely gives him the air Judging from the intensity of the love scenes with Sari air was what he needed Robert Young plays the husband and has no trouble in looking juvenile enough to suit the role He almost looks like her little boy If he's going to be cast in parts like these Bob should grow a mustache if he can grow a mustache Fortunately Dr Harding has kept a quiet biologist in reserve for such emergencies The biologist's name is Dr Heppy Maybe he is Dr I Heppy Ted Lewis is always talking about You know Is everybody Heppy (Drop that pitchfork!) Any- tvsHwIticeN STICK TO Ti4C HOME TEA 1-11)Mt ItAr 4 I save money by sending his three brothers back to the cleaning and pressing business and replacing them with a multiple looking glass Maybe some such thought occurred to him for he attempts to work without them in a great many scenes We couldn't go so far as to say that he needs Harpo Chico and Zeppo to help him put over his gags Maybe he doesn't need them at all Maybe be needs Ted Healy and his Stooges Maybe be needs Thelma Todd But he certainly needs someone During the first reel of the picture one suspects that has finished something he can't start His first speech oontains two Jokes that probably are the ptoperty of Weber and Fields or of Castor and Pollox The one about "they may tear you down and erect an office building where you now stand" is an old Paramount property since Roland eating minute Woma Hollywood ahvays reminds the last scene WEL shot Apparently i me of one of those French Revolu she had no idea of remaining tion pictures where the women are Spartan at the dining table in order I hollering and waving pitchforks twice to remain a Venus in proportions I as violently as any of the guys are Sure I'd like to keep this figure" The only ladies in sight are the ones she said "but I also want to keep my getting their heads cut off" life a while longer Half the head- It Resembles a Sigh aches of Hollywood are brought about by diets People who naturally should She gave hat looked suspiciously be fat get so jittery on these diet sigh like a that they aren't themselves You can I "Anyhow" she said we got what take a couple of months of it and we wanted out of it stay normal but you can't take lemon "Joan Crawford called me up the Juice forever I other day and I didn't know her She "No I'll get fat again and It I ad one of those trick English so make a picture next year I'll die cents and a Lady Vere-de-Vere voice back to proportions that will fit into 'She's been married to the son of the the lens of a camera" royal family and she's running around Clara says whether or not she with Franehot Tone who they tell me comes back constitutes a big 'I get a bigger kick out of seeing represents the spirit of Cornell and on the hoof Joan's gone Mr and Mrs Rex Bell' painted on a long way from the Charleston con the letter box than I do out et seeing tests a nd you can bet your life she 'Clara Bow' in (sane lights" she got what she wants says "If they'd let me direct I'd "Well I've got a house of my own never put grease paint on my face and a husband Our house is so fae again" 5 6 I I 5 I 5 I 5 impersonation that of Joan Crawford as she WRS in "Our Dancing Daughters" and a half dozen other films which made her the idol of young feminine America She has thrown away her high hat and taken her dancing shoes out of the closet She has at last cane to realize that there is a Hepburn to play Hepburn pictures and an Ann Harding to play Ann Harding pictures and that there is no one on earth save Joan Crawford to play Joan Crawford pictures May that lesson fix itself in her head even if her boss Louis Mayer has to make her write "I will be Joan Crawford" 100 times on the blackboard Few stars ever have a public of their own Before Joan started playing fast and loose with hers she spelled romance and self-expression to a nation of shopgirls and mattnce-goers Furthermore she smiled entertainment to their boy friends In those days she didn't need to worry about what the critics said People went to see her pictures anyway She must have been doing well to throw away such profits in the midst of the depression In reconsidering mundane money and the public after a prolonged contemplation of art Joan turns to something she knows a lot about i 0 i4e 4 ') i' 47' 44i'' -4 't' -1 Ft 1 rk '''t'Al' t' 1 i 2t I lir rf'Sil ii'kte 0' 1 i'' 4047?" 0 1 i 40 i1ek vm 4 otm1: 4'- 4 4 A Zi77'01164' 4t 'A' A 1 1 1 IA 4I''' Inn- i'S At' NI'" kilk 'i': I --t-tri I At (1:: 4ity i i 11 1 4v: 14 r' -f 4'- 4-''' 4 id 1 f1 ''r t1: I ''1' 1 4'' 1 7:::: 0i 'IN" s04tel ip Aiit14116 0 -P k' i 41 Young used it in a Paramount plc- how the biologist has been much ture more then a year ago i preoccupied in watching the love Hr! In "Duck Soup" the Marx Brothers i of two amoeba through a microscope I finally have departed from their tra- 1 tvhich gives him a theme song ditionctl movie Harpo does not play 1'Amoeba Wrong But I Think You're i the harp and Chico does not play Wonderful!" Being a humanitarian! the piano Having departed their i the doctor does not make use of this problem is now to find their way back! poisonous melody since they haven't anything as good The 'big scene comes when the as the old stuff to use as its substiplastered husband of the plastic sur- tute germ takes his girl friend for an air-This bearish reort of "Duck Soup" I plane ride and they crash It is then 1 I plumulit iluw ay 1 taa go(c7 1 poisonous melody since they haven't anything as 1 as the old stuff to use as its substi- The 'big srene comes when the i tut(' plastered husband of the plastic surThis bearish reort of "Duck Soup" I germ takes his girl friend for an air-should plane ride and they crash It is then 1 out in the desert that any Hollywood A great number of MOV1P columnists merry Andreas who set out to mootch who got too wise too quickly have gin get there' famished for water so ridiculed Clara's ambition to direct We're Actually there's nothing ridiculous not troubled by any domestic pests I cook the things we like to about it She'd probably be a en v---' good director since she is one of those eat which doesn't mean that I hays my picture taken mixing pineapple people born with an instinct for the tvp i for the movie magazines We camera and for screen story telling 's Shortly before her retirement she dont have a cook so my cooking has appear to be on the level: ed in a movie about two sisters i I i should be taken as voicing this re' viewer's opinion that the Marx Brothers are slipping rather than his notion that "Duck Soup" is a total R110111(1 be taken as voicing this re- be taken as voicing this re viewer's opinion that the Marx Brothers nre slipping rather than his notion that Duck Soup is a total are slipping rather than his notion that "Duck Soup" is a total the one you have been waiting for rile picture no doubt will draw 1 owds because Clara still means to theatergoers- It probably! 'An be depended upon to equal the iccess of ''Call Her Savage" If loes Clara once more can take the For beyond her very posive sex appeal and personality 'HooPli" is a pretty faint whisper robabry Clara could be good in a l(k1 story but Fox Films appar saves its stories for those who 11 need them "Hoopla" is a rehash of Bark': which provided Milton Sills with starring vehicle In attempting to 'ar Clara Bow in it he producers been obliged to make a second- '7 character the lend and to ate-1 '-mpt to turn a tougli sordid story teat show people into a romance Is small wonder that the (sults are not happy S'inee the fieracter of the boy's father the 1ard-boi1ed barker) cannot be elimirated the thing resolves itself into I yarn about a girl and her and how they snarl at each l'her While this may be recognizlale to many people as a choice exIll1P1e of native home life it scarcely romantic The character of the son has been ampled almost beyond recognition I the scenarie writers who have 7-1oPected to rieht and left in their 'ells to preserve the character of father and at the same time etc the character of the girl Rich-Cromwell in the role of the son '11)s a likely candidate for the sap the month He spends his time )0king gaga at Clara and pouting DoPa Never was a masculine so sorely taxed When Clara in her unsubtle efforts I vamping gives him a rowdy once-he is so coy that one suspects at he does not belong in this picat all but is an advance man for ttle Women" When Clara takes! '1 het clothes and indulges in moon: iht bathing before his gentle eyes lard sits on the bank thoughtfully ming his fingers on his chin 4Tentual1y they arc married and gts a job on the Chicago Mid- doing a muscle dance so that her husband clad in a neat new $orge suit can go to law school' ot is the happy ending- Many an Solon might go to law school i slash eireilmslances As they 1 In lirl1 wnid "It's nice work if On get it" 41 Cromwell does not even protest' the one yen he picture becal amour to ti an be deper access of ''C oes Clara For ve sex al Hoopla" is robabTy Cla story saves ll need the "Hoopla" Is pr starring ye 'ar Clara 11 Rye been oh rv charactei -mpt to tur tent show here is sr sults are raracter of ard-boiled aid the yarn about "i-law and I 'her While Ile to many llIPle of net romantic The charac lfllptecJ aln the seem 7-Inneded to torts to pr In father an Ii the char Cromaxell 'lMs a likel the montl DOking ga-ge DiPa Ner "flue so sore When ClarF vamping he is si '''at he does at all bu le Worn het clot he ltt bathing 'chard sits -1ming hi tilentually ra gets a j1 doing husbar serge sul Is thn Folor ninh In IirIl 1 '111 grt 1 '41 Cromwi up to Ann to decide whether she Wili i save her own face or that of the I I pretty home wrecker Ann goes noble' flop It is far from that Compared I which prevents R-IC-O from having to their previous successes it is to hire Boris Karloff to play the re- mainder of Miss Maritza's part I bit obvious a bit slow a bit heavy- handed but it has moments of pure 1 Having indulged in her big scene I Marxian hilnity I Miss Harding marries Nils Asther I I The mirror incident is one of them (Dr Heppy) who will be remembered Another occurs when Harpo attempts i As General Yen in an earlier picture to carry on a telephone conversation He's had a general yen for the fair Ann all through this picture This brings matters to a close and the Puns to their completion (Prolonged cheers) In addition to "The Right to Ro 1 s' pretty home wrecker Ann goes noble' which prevents R-K-0 from having flop It is far from that Compared I to hire Boris Karloff to play the re- to their previous successes it is RI heavy mainder of Miss Maritza's part bit obvious a bit slow a bit handed but it has moments of pure Having indulged in her big scene I Miss Harding marries Nils Asther I Mandan hilrity I iBr Heppy) who will be remembered The mirror incident is one of them Another occurs hen Harpo attempts A General Yen in an earlier picture to carry on a telephone conversation He's had a general yen for the fair Ann all through this icture This brings matters to a close and the puns to their completion (Prolonged cheers) In addition to The Right to Ro- "I used to think rd like some kids -rothers 4 1 1: 1117e? who worked in a department store 1 I around tie house but I had a couple aroun Tile characters hi licier-e 1'4 of young relatives sent out from Because use Clara was the star she as Bre like these cklyn an i all kid ar 71! segrallystetiirsInhgt hhev1role of the geod sister Bow kids you just can't hsve baby while in Arthur Was cast a the foot tae pufsleone pkrat toelurfri tohgheyooudnsebTewenolutlhlocilretaoannvdee 4 lilietYshgouirlild haItte 41:11 bthael mhaovrec 1 '04 -'''44tialt' ti'''' e': a Ail flashy character but she had too looked like a set for 'What Price much good sense to apply all the Bow Glory'" Clara whose problem is more avoirdupois than poise erraves at the "But Clara wouldn't you have to verve where it didn't belong Instead Uptown littler and more glamorous than ever in "Hoopla" She has the she coached Jean Arthur to play the give domestic life if you started tole of a World's Fair muscle dancer although it isn't a role so much bad sister as she would have played directing?" she was asked as it is a tremor it The result was a good screen I "No" she said "because I'd want to story which Jean stole All the critics direct my husband Rex Bell" film mance" which is pretty good stooge relatives I can express my the type that gets fat I'm not a said Clara was slipping but they she became serious i fare the Mainstrect offers Ely Cul- sentiments by saying 'Thank the Lord big eater and I'm not a small eater didn't know that she slipped only "The producers" she said "never bertson in a short subject on bridge over'" I just like rnough food to be corn- because she wan a great trouper have given Rex the right brbreaks They playing and its associated gunplay1 This wa Fredric March an actor whose kee n't the expected thing for ic table a tea noonful of sugar be- him in westerns He is really out It will be found amusing especially a movie queen to say It would bear teas technique no one laughs at says be to be a a very unusual 1 i by Kansas City audiences get I comes an inch of fatogt the eeminute it would neer have lasted in the talkie type Sort of a combination of Linde 1 And Clara Bow thr Every wok before a camera 1 She didn't smile when she "Don't picture means a month intensive ou like being a movie star had not Clara Bow taught him how and the prince of Wales" fresh a a dew-covered mornin" any more? he as asked I or war This scene is a capable bur- Lilana Wynyard always looks as diet I In hungry and I crabby i 1 itrrt nn myst-nr ahntit Ts- le-0 aid it lit w11 III JA 0111 rus diet I'm hunlry and I'm crabby "'nitre's no about It looks like Clara 1 I 1 0 to ti 1 4 4: 4 411 by using a series of carefully tuned motor car horns Because pulls a few old wheezes does not gainsay the fact that be has more than a few new fast ones There always is a good bit of satire in a Marx comedy and there is one delicious moment in this one when the congress of a mythical kingdom and all its war lords break into a buck and wing a cakewalk and every other known caper at the joyful prospect by using a series of carefully tuned motor car horns Because pulls a few old wheezes does not gain- say the fact that he has more than a by using a series of carefully tuned motor car horns Because pulls a few old wheezes does not gain- say the fact that he has more than a few new fast ones There always is a good hit of satire in a Marx comedy and there is one delicious moment in this one when the congress of a mythical kingdom and all its war lords break into a thick and wing a cakewalk and every other known caper at the joyful prospect There Is more than a little that is ITMilliSCVnt of her early days In Kansas City in the opening sequences of "Dancing Lady" when she is discovered as a girl in a honky-tonk burlesque show a girl who is slangy cheap and blatant but in whose courageous sparring with the world there Is something rather noble Her shoddy life is lightened by two things: her dogged preservation of her self-respect and her passion for dancing To her these days are perilous and dramatic although they possess a honky-tonk humor to a rich young buck who comes adventuring and to the audience The story deals with this girl's rise Her fate is woven with the lives of two men The rich waster who is infatuated With her and a hard drinking hard driving stage director who holds the key to her dreams but who Is completely indifferent to her With these parts played by Franchot Tone and Clark Gable and with "Ch it iznl woollier I like it or really ha got guoFs 111: ha a tin getting Clara says "and I don't thirk it what he wants out of Hollywood snd I not" Cliza protestcl "I sunrise the cook likes Thonlsrgivinf Its hist rlon7 with nil whilo I'm trying to moans that rm particularly smarti cook Atm II remodel own liglaP A 1 IMILIC of the international Jingo spir-I e'lo'rs And IIedds Hopper's cx-irer- and is none the less funny binaue' i Mon seems to be one of cnntinual I it is trrigic It comes to a rousing 11 surpr ise 1 luale when they play xylophone solo or the helmets of the guard' It mny be news tr) the fans that SCOTTS a good scene when he i Irene Rich is About to make her himself into a fury while won-! cinema debut Not the Irene known 1 if his peRee offer will be re- I to the screen the ninny years but Jr Med An Irene Rich who is 8 months old' 1 i The war scenes Are fairly funny and Pnd namesake of the nctress she fAirly familiar The stunt of havinl i has a role with Katharine Hepburn the enemy crawl through a hole in in "Trigger fly I Vie beep Around studios ten years: Mary Pickford MTMS embarrassel that Its an awful bother and an awful By the tuna in-N le ready to be- and I was a pretty young little punk when she meets newsmen unexpeet lot of work" gin shooting Im ornewhat used to when I got my first break You edly at social functions these days iiie Job can et Alon with the com-1 learn quicker when you're i She obviously is afraid they're goint She roused in the midst of a catch- 110114eineepiog i but the fact that I am dieting you're more inquiring I think I' to Rsk her about the reported recon- intw gg have it on a lot of tiv1 directors who ciliation with Douglas But none of titit-tecaltarth-ettihnat wrdeisdtnihtlg went linith bt qinnalikacesr mand Iwodroknihnhradvc i ar aI sattnree didn't take up movie work until they thorn do having had flat refusals of fastened I intuitions as to wh21c -1r a srne I is were grown men" a statement through her businem "You don't realize--" she I 'okay' or not I'm a darned sight i By this time the had conquered manager I 1 Joan giving a sincere Rnd fascinating p7rformance PI t'e starvNI and greedy LIM who strivrA to sei7e On life with both Lady" would be a fine piece of entertain '1 111MOINIMIEPRIIIIMPIMONMENIMP fm37 0410 of041tiM i.

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