Judge — May 1935 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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~ _ nace Sea “West Point Of The Air” is about ast satisfactory of the current se there is more talk than there is flying. The U.S. Air Corps does put in one swell night flying scene for MGM, and there are two or | three stunt crashes that are up to standard. But the propaganda talk about the old army, probably inserted by the producers as payment for the Army’s flying, is not only dull but poorly written. Then there is an Army-Navy football game which is awfully Mer- riwell, but it probably will give the Navy a laugh. (The score was 3-0 last year, Navy—don’t you remember, Wallace Beery plays nursemaid to Robert Young in the picture and acts as though Mr. Young were no older than Jackie Cooper, which doesn’t help matters any. Maureen O’Sulli- van is the one good player in the show. She has shown more finesse and charm in every picture she has been in since Johnnie Weissmuller slung her around the trees in “Tar- zan.” Perhaps the shock woke her up; after that, I suppose, anything would look like duck soup. LFRED HITCHCOCK, who used to be the white hope director for the British before Alexander Korda “Your Honor, I see no evidence of the third degree. The defendant was merely marked for identification.” came along, has turned out a civil, well-written spy picture called “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” With three of the best lads in the business —Leslie Banks; Peter Lorre; and Pierre Fresnay—to act for him, he got away with a fairly cheerio, if lit- erate, plot about a group of spys who are frustrated in an attempted politi- cal assassination by a quiet Britisher and his wife. The last scenes in the picture are anti-climatical in that nothing much happens but a little pistol shooting— and there’s one thing you can say for Hollywood—when our boys open fire they don’t fiddle around about it. Career Men HE average life of a modern tall building is less than ten years, says an engineer. Which means that the same people who stood around and watched them go up will be able to stand around and see them torn down. instead of saying “I'm everybody says “It’s uncon- stitutional !” “Peanuts, popcorn, chewing gum—” comicbooks.com