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his character role. Joe Is funny all of the time in this film without ever growing tiresome, something that.subject by any means, but Jane With- tt ers is no Shirley Temple. She is r cute when she is called on to be, butcannot always be said of the gentle- could learn a lot about singing and man. dancing from Shirley. The stageTomlin plays a supporting sequences in the film, in fact, are part in the picture in uninspired fash-} rather foolish, as the acts Jane and ion, showing that it takes more to be her chorus present would fall far an actor than the mere ability to from being the vaudeville sensation write “The Object of My Affections.” they are played up to be.Still, when Tomlin laughs, the high John McGuire acts the lendingi of Smart Girl are reached, man's role in “Tills Is the Life inrilt;wR(PiriiUUproar: ThosetlPiaverage fashion, looking handsome, but displaying no great knowledge orj histrionics in his portrayal of the j 't’jJune Withers Turns Nice Girl, for part. Sally Blane is the main girl ina Change, in “This Is the Life,” affalrs and looks almost RS attracllveaiat the Uptown.Ocraidlnr Revier ....... .Jane WithersMichael Grant. ..........John McGuireHelen D*vi* ...............Sally BlaneProfessor Breckenridge ....Sidney Toler Diane Revier ..............Gloria RoyEd Revier .......Gordon WestcottSticky .. • .Francis EorciMrs. Davis .Entnu Dunnj rs her sister, Loretta Young, but could take plenty of lessons from Miss Young in the gentle art of showing ! emotion before a camera.Gordon Westcott gives his stereo-iroj typed villain characterization as the j15JANE Withers, after being a “littleold mcanie in the films until sheis difficult to imagine in any otherrole, turns nice in “^his Is the Life. at the Uptown this week, and audiences figuratively have to shake themselves to get used to the change. Personally, we prefer a hair-pulling Jane to one who has her hair pulled. She is better as a menace, we would say, than as an asset.The story of the film Introduces the child as Geraldine Revier, a little girl who is supposed to be a vaudeville sensation, but who does a very ordinary dance routine, even for a little girl. Her act adds considerably to ihe bank account of Diane Revier and Ed Revier, her backers, who have gotten her from an orphanage and who reward her good deeds with abuse.When John McGuire, fleeing from a charge of stealing some money, uses a fire escape to seek refuge in Jane's room she helps him get out of town and goes along with him. The two then become wayfarers on a California road, where they join forces with Sidney Toler, a peddler,4 * mha . * * .a. ft * * I t f !• i 1 _ _ A — A.Revier, and Gloria Roy 1 plays opposite him in properly snarly V style. Sidney Toler really steals the vpicture as the amiable Professor Breckenridge whom Jane and McGuire meet in California. Toler * makes a gem of this part and, in the n doing, makes the entire film, CFunny moment: Toler watching pFrancis Ford’s manners at Sally Blane's dinner table.Needless one: Westcott makinglove to an unknown lady in a bathtub. L. L,siLtf f If rptltttif MtiitlflfiH ift tflMff I HftVftVllltf fVMIMtfbCAMERA!S*228tlkir$1Sio0mIi• IHlllHMMHMtttlllMlllffMMilH CMMiHMH JlllHHIIIiHti(AahibMKE WEST Is determined to i have her own way in mak-eiCeIng her pictures, no matter how odd the result may look.“Klondike Lou,’* her latest vehicle,md Francis rora, ms smiuess assist- finds the star a passenger on an int. Alaska-bound freighter In the early jJahe and John are caught taking; lfiOOs. She turned up for the filming dlft ft 41 .. - .. 44 irnt ^ 2 ■ a. a. 2 ■ m ft Jk ft M ah m • A .1♦ ft W • ft —- mrnw ^ ^ - —----,and she menaces them with a shot-;un bigger, almost, than the lady icrself. Then a lot more things hap-)en in the plot before the inevitable Riding is reached which has, of ;ourse, Jane, McGuire and Sally hap-iy together, and the conniving Refers looking for another child star.Tliis picture is one that children doubtless will love and that adultbwor tne scene wearing orignt red ponsnon her finger-nails.“But Miss West,” a director objected. “Women didn't wear red nailpolish in 1900. iI would have,” the buxom lady;1* answered, and that seemed to be that. *Speaking of red things, Joel Mc-Crea appeared for a shot opposite Miriam Hopkins in “Splendor” cladri4 *.*! ft* wft W ▼ “ ft * ft ft ft* ft* • » ftft“ V “ ft ft1* W ft* ft* | w •w * -- jp, ^ —■ — ' W4ludiences probably will watch with In a bright crimson tail coat, nterest. It is not a Shirley Temple Mr. McCrea had a more valid reasonTI
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 13, 1935
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