Judge — February 1936 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Judge THE THOUGH it almost completely was borrowed story produced “lt a fairly Tt has taneity i from a ( by thes 01 You Could Only little pany, is comedy or spon- i in because the le structure that based on Happened One lor years very but siness I fre suppose as every comy in 2s row I tention, that production with this pl the past tw arism is hardly inbred worth at An even drearier cliche mars this picture in that the blows up ina fa boys should find funny a ut sequence out sooner or ly more, still with u 1 wouldn ought Arth "t have up the pic for the fact that Jean ar, Herbert Carrillo and Lioner Stand make up four producers er a first-rate comedy —it their worked a essiully the ” d quarter as suc picture would have been a daisy, This ¢ girl has a gift: which shown to advan- ge every time they have ven her a chance. In “The Whole Town's Talk- ing,” “Diamond Jim” and now in this one she is at- tractive, gay, and very much at eas For her work, and that of her associates, you can forgive a great deal of the plot, which demands that in unknown couple pose man and wife 1 take employ nt as servants in wl turns out to be mansion. rthur quiet comedy she has a gangster’s here is a little more to it than that, but not enough to write about. HER more orig- a great deal dy, ina little jewel called “The Bride Comes Home” which is still an- other one of those Claud ette Colbert comedies h the very slick comedienne has to be repulsec erally insulted by a big he him to realize it’s love th And there pr i i less com “The boys took up in a pair wh vung slapped around, anc -man beiore she finally t's bothering him. bly was more to this story than meets the eye when it first was put on paper. It’s all about a Chicago millionaire who starts a magazine for men and who lets his bodyguard edit the sheet OVIES 2 By PARE now the whole picture it had been produced 1 like hicayo—the villionaire ts ! made out to be ay in merely be 1 he edi sh-talking every be cause he is a millionaire LORENTZ tor is a mone young hates th man her » enjoved rot until idhouse ie hter of a mother wh id therefore refuse ive in ged punch drunk by surly squire, 1 1 “7PRALE of Two Cities” was a fine motion picture and probably the only epic of the year with a good q leading hay tempo th character strong usually governs these nted by t nity of the language bitter, mocking character of Sydney Carton by 1 Colman. 1! wed Ronale There seemed Jenty of al felt char- that anche time individy cterization; you dna May Oliver, BI Reginald ¢ La \V i \ and even Lucille wen, ne r were not mere! players giving acts in but vastly interesting and ex citi For matic thank many Dickens, for one, for writ in: at melodrama; Mr. Selznick for excellent judgment. in music Lactors, but particular- ly a hard-working and lit tle-publicized director, one Jack times past has done some excellent which honestly players in a this unusual tightness you dra- can Mr people: sets, Conway, who in melodramas caped attention because t weren't con- sidered “important Of cour usual the French Revolution was presented a 14th Street Communist uprising in- stead of a national revolt that reached from the Rousseaus and Voltaires nd the gentlemen of France clear to the gut- ters. And the mobs seemed, once again, just U.S.C. thuse. y Carton was a drunken, you did believe Eliza- th Allen a beautiful and charming heroine, and the rey a collection to buy you of pants.” Hollywood extras joining in a 3ut you did believe that Sydne mocking, brilliant’ misanthrope; final guillotine scene not only was brutal and honest, but 3 ell handled as any similar episode I ever have seen done in the movies, 14 comicbooks.com