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HoUywoodUnscareersa remarkable per*lemen of theur*ImVtdentally.Th«talkies came In and were ai^fshtkespeare would attract at-^ Who should reap the bene-The first talkie producf,nliMhftt sensation? Doug or Mary?HQ* u . wum nf«t » wmtflarfitaThereaiabout how the two wouldopposite,?pP8‘ Hitherto neither could afford le. Nc“ *w*— her ntcoursee'^rtHce magnitude. Now things - different. Neither need sacri-nff anything.sacrifice some plot. ButHw Eiystan Fields, Shakespeare is •ft... clinking mugs with Kit^bSC5p and Beaumont and Fletcherf J only be amused ..... do with his writings. So,f,L snatching up a classic. DougJ Mary proceeded ........., '*rlasstc.J. C M.~The Criticmembered for formance inPress,” gives another fine interpretation of the role of the lawyer, while Claudette Colbert proves herself apersonality as acceptable to the talking screen as she is to the stage, Herperformance combines dramatic skilland a vast amount of personal charm. Charles Rugglos, who was the bibulous reporter in Gentlemen of the Press. has grown a mustache and now is a bibulous stock market speculator. He portrays one of those happy individuals who is reeling drunk the moment he wakes up in the morning, and who stays that way time without end, Betty Garde portrays a peroxide gold digger, and gets off many a wise crack and nifty. Tom Brown lt;not one of the six Brown brothers) portrays the spoiled and pampered son, and does it very effectively.A little girl, Patricia Peering, strikes us as the prize find of the picture. Miss Deering brings all the freshness and sweetness of childhood to the talking screen. She has a lovely voice and a fine personality. If Paramount lets her get away without signing a contract it will be a sign someone's foot slipped.In addition to its intensely inter-*liiii]l!I,3hi*New matt—“The Lady Lie*.o0»»lt«r........ Walter HoustonSWIS :3«,' SOU£,S£S!'£r V.V.I™6*nfv Tuft ...... thinr*r. P(*::u»rd#nPT. V‘r*lnv,.rfaa’l.r.gffnicf Tutt!$HEBE is another sophisticatedpicture. A sophisticated pic-tura lias coma to mean anyfilm in which the footballftms 1» not won by Calford in the]Kt five minutes of play, in which Buddy Rogers does not save the show fc” torturing the slip horn and in viich the little girl with a heart of f-d does not make the big wicked gangster on the way to the electric rr.r realize there is nothing like T-jng love after all. Sophisticated 'lt; s word we boys in the movie re-7 ring racket have very muchAs a matter of fact. The Ladv Lies'* is not so highly sophisticated. s!o one would suspect that Oscar tvilde wrote it, with the aid of a ouija : rd. or that George Bernard Shaw as shaved his whiskers to go to Hol-vwood incognito with this result. The Lady Lies has considerable iokum in it, but it is the stage hokum i the noble mistress, the narrow-r.:r.ded Puritan and all the rest of it. fhe upper classes come in for aiearty panning, and birth and breed-ag are taken for a buggy ride.When a golden-haired gold digger xcllms, these Junior League gals m put a high hat label on the old ,rmy game, one almost expects the nasses to start erecting revolutionary mn in the aisles of the theater, to *e the red flag hoisted over the mint tr.d to find Mrs. Trotsky sitting above Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at the din-r.*r table.‘ The Lady LieMAN TREVOR IN BRILLIANT'8 AT PANTAGES WITH IRE.tg of being horribly wicked while r'ou are looking at it. There are a hells and damns put in at dd intervals, which always helps, tod a sanctimonious gentleman one Aspects of being a deacon, since he :omes from New England (New Eng-and, according to the movies, is populated entirely by deacons), is told to set the hell out of here.What more could you ask?Though the sophistication of The ^dy Lies may be questioned, it eerily is adult. Furthermore, it istotertaining to those who can stand a Plot that is not ended by the death °* a wealthy uncle in New Guinea * the timely arrival of the United5t*tes marines.The story concerns the struggles ^'tween a wealthy widower's children *dd the lady whose rent he pays €'«ry month. The picture has been Edited carefully, so that there is little10 cause the blush of shame to creep eToss the faces of the 16-year-oldthe censor# are all so worried•bout.Therefore, the conversations be-toeen the rent payer and the apartment resident are chaste, and it ap-nrs the prosperous widower is guilty hothing but the most high-mindedJlnthropy. One is slightly per-‘exed when the New England rcla-ves and the children make such austofs”rer this arrangement, and it t until the beginning of reel it it occurred to us that we supjxised to “read between theMost of us like pictures re-mr reading between the lines it makes us feel flattered, proud to think the producersus smartthis. We 1. We love to air our per-Vfy-‘ Houston, yiU t* 8HiPHOTO PLAYS.!HAROCREAM OFAND STAG!HAROLD ILOYD1TWO BLAC1MORAN MACKCLARA BOWGEORGE BANCR'MAITRICE CHEV/THE MARX BRO'CHARLES BUDIDENNIS KINGNANCY CARROL!RUTH CHATTERWILLIAM POWE1JEANNE EAGEISEVELYN BRENTGERTRUDE LAWCOOPERRICHARD ARLECotON THE AHPublix Radio HourEvening 10-11 P. M-1the nation-wide ColonISystem. Bear your fscreen star* in delig htfPARAMOUNT
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1929
Page 36
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