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■Ida Lupino and Joseph Cant hornProvide Entertainment In “Smart Girl,“ an Interesting Comedy at the Tower.Pat Ravnclds ...... Ida LupinoNick Graham.............Kent TaylorKav Raynolds .........Oatl PatrickKarl Krauscmeyer Joseph CawthornHans Krausemeyer.......Pinky TomlinHarry Courtland.......Sidney BlackmerMrs. Krausemeyer ...Greta Meyers*' a •• ♦ _ \ • *****,wrJahim H®ynolds. *••«•••• «Cliudf ICthr Mis Brown... EmrnfttAuctioneer • • • *•••••••»•■ »* * Perry Iv iniNtLson .«•. i • * • i«•»* * *»• ■ Harold HinjlfMorgan..........•......Charles WilsonDonovan......... Booth HowardOfHE troubles of a pair society damsels left pennilessupon the death of their fatherare on entertaining display in Smart Girl, this week’s film at the3E j*VNTO A LOT OF TROUBLE.Ruby Keeler plays opposite Dickat Annapolis when he wants to return crooners that already are cluttering.. •;#/. v*1r » * Ihis character role. Joe is funny all of the time in this film without ever growing tiresome, something that cannot always be said of the gentleman.Pinky Tomlin plays a supporting part in the picture in uninspired fashion, showing that it takes more to be an actor than the mere ability to write “The Object of My Affections.” Still, when Tomlin laughs, the high moments of “Smart Girl” are reached.Uproar: Those Tomlin laughs.S'eccdirYfnina b! tiJune Withers Turns Nice Girl, for p♦ * tn . Jf.YjwX‘ *v“.' ‘ *■C*33vXva Change, In “This Is the Life,”Ml the 1 \iO\\ II.Grrsidine Revier ........Jan'1 WithersMichael Grant ...John McGuireHelen Davis ...... Bally BUMProfeaaor Breckenrtdga ... .Sidney TolerDiane Revier ..............Gloria RoyEd Revier ..Gordon WesicottSticky * Prancls I^ordMrs. Davis Emma DunnRC1ctc IfrfII1t**Dr. Qocrates,” at the Newman, and Esters use for their “home grounds.’*e film, and the star is in the centerJANE Withers, after being a “little ,old mcanie in the films until she ]is difficult to imagine in any other lt;role, turns nice in “This 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,and Francis Ford, his shiftless assist- 1 ] ant.i_ , Jahe and John are caught taking ]The troubles, incidentally, milk: from the farm of Sally Blane, lt;m ‘ ■ ^ jR* - V. — jw.i’L. T.ifc V ~-r . —ji -'4' . ~ . flBT tJfTower. ____ „ _ . ... __seem mainly to be wrapped around and she menaces them with a shot-the possibilities of either youngster gUn bigger, almost, than the lady absorbing the slightest grain of sense, j herself. Then a lot more things hap- j One (Gail Patrick) never does. The pen in the plot before the inevitable j second (Ida Lupino) takes her time ending is reached which has. of about it but finally turns out to be course, Jane, McGuire and Sally hap- spy together, and the conniving Re-viers looking for another child star, jquite a lady.The first five minutes of “Smart Girl” are so Identical with the similar period of time in “ChampagneThis picture is one that children lt;doubtless will love and that adult 1for Breakfast,” which recently ap- audiences probably will watch with 1pea red at the Tower, that they well j interest. It is not a Shirley Temple could be called an echo. Kent Taylorcalls at the mansion of Janies Raynolds to serve a process on that impoverished ex-millionaire. Ida Lupino, Raynolds’s daughter, meets Kent at the door, invites him to have some caviar, and introduces him to her sister, Gail Patrick. While Taylor is in the house, Raynolds shoots himself, the family's few remaining possessions being sold later at auction. There the resemblance of “Smart Girl and “Champagne for Breakfast. which has been twinlike so far, abruptly ceases.Miss Lupino gets work as a designer for Joe Cawthorn, dialectician hat manufacturer, while Miss Patrick marries Tayior and starts slowly to make his life miserable. The small fact that Miss Lupino also loves the man adds to the turmoil of the situation considerably.Kent gets a job under Sidney Blackmer, crooked stock promoter, and Miss Patrick starts cheating with the boas. Miss Lupino discovers ail that is going on and has to straighten it out, which she does with the aid of Mr. Cawthorn and despite that of Pinky Tomlin, who plays as addle-pated a young man as we ever have seen on the screen. The last reel of the picture finds Ida getting Kent, which you knew she would do all along, but she has been a pretty likable soul throughout affairs, so you are for her all of the time.♦ Miss Lupino, without possessing any particular portion of good looks, plays the leading role in Smart Gh in a pleasant fashion that instantly wins the sympathy and support of the audience. Miss Patrick is too much the siren as the other sister and doesn’t look half as well in the film's later reels as she does in theearlier ones.Kent Tayior Is good looking but not especially distinguished as the main man in affairs, Joe Cawthornmeaning much more to the plot inMOVIftIf Jane Withers were older in y«Ofith .Tnhn McGuire in “This Is tisn’t of an age yet to be interested
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 13, 1935
Page 56
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