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INKABOUTGREASEPAINTSome current Talkies and Stage ShowsFox pictures have recently gone in for a vigorous reform movement. In the past few months they've run sev-eral films which were propagandaagainst gangsters: films which glorified our noble police force and films which advocate child guidance through the channels of the juvenile courts.The latter topic is the sermon prea-ched in the picture showing this week at the Roxy. “Young America tells the story of an orphan boy whose mis-chievous pranks are always perpetrated at inopportune moments, and, as a result, appear to be serious crimes. Even when he is doing his best to begood, the boy is tagged by hard luck, and time after time is hailed into court as “the worst kid in town. The wife of the town druggist volunteers to be a fairy god mother to the boy, but it is not long before circumstantial evidence points him out as a thief, thereby shattering the woman's faith in him. He makes good in the last reel, however, and all ends happily.Unless it stirs people into adopting luckless youngsters I can't see what earthly use the picture is. It certainly was not made with entertainment in view. Nevertheless, pleasing performances by Ralph Bellamy, Doris Kenyon, Beryl Mercer, Tommy Conlon, Raymond Borzage and Spencer Tracy are not to be overlooked.Patricia Bowman, Mademoiselle de la Ballet at the Roxy, is at her best this week. The stage show is in the nature of a May festival—-with spring dances and May poles and things. Miss Bowman does a number with a hoop which is beautiful indeed. Margaret Matzenauer, former Metropolitan Opera contralto, appears in person singing a few songs. A realization of the fact that her voice has lost some of its once magnificent power was not enough to detract from my enjoymentof some sweet melodies.❖ ❖ ❖At The StrandLee Tracy has a nice part in “The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, showing this week at Warner Brothers Strand Theatre on Broadway.Mr. Tracy and Ann Dvorak get more out of the story than it contains, and both are to be congratulated for their work. True, the let-down at the final fade-out is appalling, but it is the fault of the dialogue rather than the actors. True also, that Mr. Tracy gives us the SOS (same old stuff) but the more praise—he bores us not.MB•cJOBy1 ::n illAlice AlworthUnhandsome and not at all versatile, Mr. Tracy seems to be able to give a sustained performance, no matter how rubber stamped it is.The story is about Molly Louvain,whom life has given what is known asa “raw deal. At the nadir of her for^tunes she is caught in a trap ana unjustly accused of murder, highway robbery, gang leading and kindred eviR While hiding from the law she falls in love for the last time, and then goes noble on us ... .Also at the Strand is the Jones Golf Series and a short subject explaining some interesting scientific phenomenon and showing (but not show-ing-up) some rather clever sleight-o -hand tricks.
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Bronxville Press
Bronxville, New York, US
Tue, May 10, 1932
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