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toward musical comedy of the two charackers originally
these days. He performs well.
though. and manages to exude his
created, with realistic pens, by the Messrs. Stallings and
eustomary charm without the aid of
arias.
Anderson in What Price Glory.“
He is assisted hy Helen Chandler,
Really, Women of All Nations“
whose career has led her from 'The
should be the starting point of an
cover who dommitted the crime. and Wild Duck“ to the footlights of the
essay o# the exact number of sea¬
everything ends in the interests of
Guild’s production of Faust“ and
sons it takes for a certain year’s
justice and general nappiness, and
then straight to California. Miss
realistic play or book to go threugh
without Mr. Brooke being forced to
Chandler is here required to grow
the stages of movie gag comedy and
break the unwritten code that a law¬
up. and she reaches Hollywood ma¬
then to be tricked out with song and
per must not divulge the secrets of
turity, so-called, in being called upon
dance.
bis patrons.
to play first a maiden, then a be¬
My guess is that the talkies will be
The film is fairly well produced
trayed mistress, then the kept bauble
doing What Price Glory“ with a
and mildly well acted, but its only
of a rich old man. With her hair
musical score and routines in an¬
claim to any originality is that, al¬
bushed around her formerly innocent
other year, as well as Ten Days
though it is plotted fer one of those
ears, a la Garbo, she looks grown-up,
That Shook the World“ and Of
big elimactic courtroom scenes—and I
attains even a bit of glamour—com¬
Human Bondage.“ And in that year
could just see the scene coming when
mon stock, rather than preferred,
Potemkin“ will probably be done
Mr. Brooke was faced in court be¬
variety, perhaps, but glamour never¬
a musical Pinafore“ and Mr.
tween loyalty to his flancee and her
theless—and due to her theatrical ex¬
Faulkner’s Sanctuary“' will prob¬
brother and Justice—the plot remains
perience, she obviously knows how
ably become a bittersweet operetta.
out of court. This avoldance of a
to read lines to make them count.
The Letter“' will be, mayhap.
talkie rubber stamp. though, hardly
The result is that she is still an¬
lavish operetta with a Chinese back¬
snves the film and you can take it or
Jothen find as a talkie actress.
ground.
leave it as it Is, save for s certain
Others who help are Kent Doug¬
Here Women of all Nations“ Is
cempetence in the plotting of its tale,
lass formerly Douglas Montgomery
lavishlg produced, straight, gag
ordinary familiar trade goods.
of the Theater Guild, who is genuine
slapstick, with Quirt and Flagg
It is tnis film, you know, which is
and real in a bit, the reliable old
bickering and tricking one another,
supposed to offer the new grownup
schnitzel Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey
and receiving the raspberry from
Charles (ex-Buddy) Rogers. IIere he
Smith. William Blakewell and the
El Brendel. Their tour this time
is the weak brother, who is inadver¬
bespectacled little Jackie Searle of
Is a
goodwill trip of the Marine
tently drawn into the network of the
Tom Sawyer.“
Corps around the world, and there
crime (although ihe didn't actually
As previously stated, Schnitzler’s
are girls in every movie port. The
commit it) and who finally turns
tragic ironies have been ironed out
two visit Niesragua, Sweden, Tur¬
State’s evidence, admits that he was
to make a typical bitte, sweet, Vi¬
key and other points and at euch
a minor partner and exposes the real
ennese, romantie interlude with a
port Barry Connors, who wove the
culprits. It is, I suppose a lcharac¬
happy ending—but bad talkies being
plot around the Stallings-Anderson
ter“ role, considering the rah-rah
countless, Daybreak“ passes a
characters, turns to the album of
goslings that he has been playing;
mildly successful program Muench¬
slapstick.
but there is, barring slightly deeper
ner.
Now, some of Women of All Na¬
tonal qualities, very little change in
The stage bill Is headed by # re¬
tions“ is funny enougn -in partie¬
Bud. True, he Appears to have a
vue topped by Kate Smith.
ular there is a low comedy epl¬
light beard, but my companion, not
J. S. C., Jr.
sode, which I seem to have seen
I. insistod that the-fineiseienl
before, wherein a monkey gets up
this was that he seeined to have just
El Brendel’s trouser leg, where¬
escaped from his mother’s jam closet.
upon the poor monkey’s tail is
At any rate, Mr. Rogers perferms
seen protruding from Mr. Brendel
fairly well, and in another year or so
—but most of it is rather familiar
I am certain that we will all believe
stuff and it winds up as the fee¬
in his encroaching and highly pub¬
It lacks the
blest of. the trilogy.
licized maturity.
bounce of The Cockeyed World“
Mr. Brooke, Fay Wray, Richard
and incidentally it Is minus the
Arlen and Jean Arthur are, of
latter’s roughest dialogue—although
course, dependable.
it is still rowdy enough as screen
But The Lawyer’s Secret'’ Is not
comedies go.
a particularly interesting one.
Victor MacLaglen and Edmund
Rudy Vallee heads the stage show.
Lowe are still In uniform and Greta
Nissen, Fifl D’Orsay. Bela Lugosi
Atthe Capitol.
and Humphrey Bogart particlpate in
From Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s novel
the peaca-time journey of two char¬
Daybreak“ comes the talkie of that
acters which are gradually being
name at the Capitol. Its tragedy has
turned into figures for vaudeville,
been extracted, I am informed, as
The stage bill is headed by a revue,
well as most of its psychological
Temptations.“ with the Roxyettes,
elimaxes and delvings, and now it is
the Roxy chorus and the ballet.
more or less a typical Viennese in¬
terlude of romance about a carefree
At the Paramonnt.
lleutenant of Franc’s Joseph’s Impe¬
At the Paramount Is The Law¬
rial Guard and a mousy little teacher
per’s Secret.“ a composition of three
of music.
er four authors, but principally a
In toto it represents mildly passa¬
ermposition of Max Marcin's. It is
a tale of a lawyer who, knowing
that his flancee’s brother and an¬
other man are responsible, directly
or indirectly, for a murder In a
gambling joint, cannot tell the Dis¬
triet Attorney—for the reason that
the brother is his client.
Meanwhile, an innocent man Is sen¬
tenced to die.
The film, then, is the old wheeze,
Should a lawyer tell?“ Here Clive
Brooke, as the lawyer, doesn't tell.
hirt friends of the accused finally dis¬