im Morgengrauen
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N Y SUN
JON 1931
bie talkie entertainment, a bit placid,
lacking any particular ellmatio qual¬
The New Talkies
ities, and certainly nothing out of
the ordirry save in its production
and acting which are quite some dis¬
tance above the usual ebb tide marks
Women of All Nations'—The Lawyer’s
in those matters.
Davbreak“ is now a uniformed
Secret’—Daybreak.
andpet falkie for Ramon No¬
varro, who seems to be able to with¬
stand the shifting of technics, cus¬
The adventures and girl chasings of the Messrs. Quirt and
toms and approaches occasioned by
Flagg are continued this week at the Roxy in“ Women of
the advent of audibility. Here he is
cast in what we call a stralght part,
All Nations,“ or, as it might easily be called, What Price the
and he is not required to exert his
Cockeyed Women of the World.“ It is just what you would
carefully, welcomely cultivated volce
in a single song—so frightened is
expect of the series in 1931 and it marks still another step
Hollywood at saying it with music
toward musical comedy of the two characfers originally
these days. He performs well,
though, and manages to exude his
created, with realistic pens, by the Messrs. Stallings and
customary charm without the ald af
arlas.
Anderson in What Price Glory.“
He is assisted by 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 on 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 haphiness, and ithen straight to California. Miss
realistic play or book to go through
wichout 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 Iturity, so-called, in being called upon
dance.
bis patrons.
to play first a malden, 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, birt 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 asTen Days
though it is plotted for one of those
ears, a la Garbo, she looks grown-up.
That Shook the World“ and “Of
big elimactie courtroom scenes—and I
attains even a bit of plamour—com¬
Human Bondage.“ And in that year
could just see the scene coming when
mon stock, rather than preferred,
Potemkin“' will probably be donc
Mr. Brooke was faced In court be¬
variety, perhaps, but glamour never¬
as a musical Pinafore“ and Mr.
tween loyalty to his fiancee and her
theless—and due to her theatrical ex¬
Faulkner’s Sanctuary“' will prob¬
brother and Justice-the plot remains
perience, she obvionsly knows how
ably become a bittersweet operetta.
out of court. This avoldance of a
to read lines tomske them count.
WThe Letter“' will be, mayhap,
talkie rubber stamp, though, hardly
The result is cant she is still an¬
lavish operetta with a Chinese back¬
saves the film and you can tak- it or
othen find an a talkie actress.
ground.
leave it as it is, save for a certain
Others who heip are Kent Doug¬
Here. Women of all Nations“ Is
cempetence in the plotting of its tale,
lass, formerly Douglas Mentgomery
lavishly produced, straight, gag
ordinary familiar, trade goods.
of the Theater Guild, who is genuine
slapstick, with Quirt and Flagg
It is this film, pou know, which is
and real in a bit, the reliable old
bickering and tricking one another.
sunposed to offer the new grownup
schnitzel Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey
and receiving the raspberry from
Charles çox-Buddy) Rogers. Here 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 Sawper.“
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 Nicaragua, Sweden, Tur¬
State’s evidence, admits that he was
to make a typical bitter-sweet, Vi¬
key and other points and at each
a minor partner and exposes the real
ennese, romantic interlude with a
port Barry Connors, who wove the
culprits. It is, I suppose a Ccharac¬
happy ending—but bad taikies being
plot around the Stallings-Anderson
er“ role, considering the rah-rah
countless, Daybreak“ passes as
characters, turns to the album of
goslings that he has been playing;
mildly successful pregram 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 a re¬
tions“' is funny enough—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. insisted that the-finaleffect of
before, wherein a monkey gets up
this was that he seemed 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 performs
seen protruding from Mr. Brendel
fairly well, and In another year or so
—but most of it is rather familiar
T 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 Cocheyed World“
Mr. Brooke, Fay Wray, Richard
and incidentally it Is minus the
Arlen and Jean Arthur are, of
latter’s roughest dialogue-althoug
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, Fifi D’Orsay, Bela Lugosi
Atthe Capltol.
and Humphrey Bogart participate in
From Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s novel
the peace-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,
climaxes 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
Atthe Paramonnt.
lieutenant of Francis Joseph’s Impe.
Atthe 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¬
crmposition of Max Marein's. It is
a tale of a lawyer who, knowing
W
box 6/1
34 Spiel
G
N Y SUN
JON 1931
bie talkie entertainment, a bit placid,
lacking any particular ellmatio qual¬
The New Talkies
ities, and certainly nothing out of
the ordirry save in its production
and acting which are quite some dis¬
tance above the usual ebb tide marks
Women of All Nations'—The Lawyer’s
in those matters.
Davbreak“ is now a uniformed
Secret’—Daybreak.
andpet falkie for Ramon No¬
varro, who seems to be able to with¬
stand the shifting of technics, cus¬
The adventures and girl chasings of the Messrs. Quirt and
toms and approaches occasioned by
Flagg are continued this week at the Roxy in“ Women of
the advent of audibility. Here he is
cast in what we call a stralght part,
All Nations,“ or, as it might easily be called, What Price the
and he is not required to exert his
Cockeyed Women of the World.“ It is just what you would
carefully, welcomely cultivated volce
in a single song—so frightened is
expect of the series in 1931 and it marks still another step
Hollywood at saying it with music
toward musical comedy of the two characfers originally
these days. He performs well,
though, and manages to exude his
created, with realistic pens, by the Messrs. Stallings and
customary charm without the ald af
arlas.
Anderson in What Price Glory.“
He is assisted by 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 on 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 haphiness, and ithen straight to California. Miss
realistic play or book to go through
wichout 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 Iturity, so-called, in being called upon
dance.
bis patrons.
to play first a malden, 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, birt 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 asTen Days
though it is plotted for one of those
ears, a la Garbo, she looks grown-up.
That Shook the World“ and “Of
big elimactie courtroom scenes—and I
attains even a bit of plamour—com¬
Human Bondage.“ And in that year
could just see the scene coming when
mon stock, rather than preferred,
Potemkin“' will probably be donc
Mr. Brooke was faced In court be¬
variety, perhaps, but glamour never¬
as a musical Pinafore“ and Mr.
tween loyalty to his fiancee and her
theless—and due to her theatrical ex¬
Faulkner’s Sanctuary“' will prob¬
brother and Justice-the plot remains
perience, she obvionsly knows how
ably become a bittersweet operetta.
out of court. This avoldance of a
to read lines tomske them count.
WThe Letter“' will be, mayhap,
talkie rubber stamp, though, hardly
The result is cant she is still an¬
lavish operetta with a Chinese back¬
saves the film and you can tak- it or
othen find an a talkie actress.
ground.
leave it as it is, save for a certain
Others who heip are Kent Doug¬
Here. Women of all Nations“ Is
cempetence in the plotting of its tale,
lass, formerly Douglas Mentgomery
lavishly produced, straight, gag
ordinary familiar, trade goods.
of the Theater Guild, who is genuine
slapstick, with Quirt and Flagg
It is this film, pou know, which is
and real in a bit, the reliable old
bickering and tricking one another.
sunposed to offer the new grownup
schnitzel Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey
and receiving the raspberry from
Charles çox-Buddy) Rogers. Here 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 Sawper.“
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 Nicaragua, Sweden, Tur¬
State’s evidence, admits that he was
to make a typical bitter-sweet, Vi¬
key and other points and at each
a minor partner and exposes the real
ennese, romantic interlude with a
port Barry Connors, who wove the
culprits. It is, I suppose a Ccharac¬
happy ending—but bad taikies being
plot around the Stallings-Anderson
er“ role, considering the rah-rah
countless, Daybreak“ passes as
characters, turns to the album of
goslings that he has been playing;
mildly successful pregram 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 a re¬
tions“' is funny enough—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. insisted that the-finaleffect of
before, wherein a monkey gets up
this was that he seemed 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 performs
seen protruding from Mr. Brendel
fairly well, and In another year or so
—but most of it is rather familiar
T 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 Cocheyed World“
Mr. Brooke, Fay Wray, Richard
and incidentally it Is minus the
Arlen and Jean Arthur are, of
latter’s roughest dialogue-althoug
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, Fifi D’Orsay, Bela Lugosi
Atthe Capltol.
and Humphrey Bogart participate in
From Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s novel
the peace-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,
climaxes 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
Atthe Paramonnt.
lieutenant of Francis Joseph’s Impe.
Atthe 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¬
crmposition of Max Marein's. It is
a tale of a lawyer who, knowing
W