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esting story and superior acting, The Lady Lies'* Is filled with a large amount of smart humor. If you are not a blue stocking you will much to laugh at in this picture.Pantages—“The Love Trap.atEvelyn Todd ,Lalt;ir. L. punt*Paul Hrrrmston ..... Net] HamiltonOuv Emery ...........Ftebtrt Em#Bunnv ............. JorHyn l eeJuoge H.rnrgton.... Norman TrevorMrs, Harrington ... .Clar.ee* gelwynneIris FUrrlniton.......* * * «t.a LaHTTIE picture at Pantages this week A us based upon tho fallacy of circumstantial evidence and the easewith which a person can beframed,*’ One does not wonder thatMr. Pantages selected the picture. Since It shows that even a Judge may lie duped and surrounded by misleading circumstances one wonders if Mr, Pantages really didn’t buy this film to show to the Jury. It would be a great coup to Introduce this at the trial. Imagine the consternation of Buron Fitts and his minions if the defense counsel should suddenly whisk out a projection machine and nroreed to throw The Love Trap,Lauraupon thesheriffs shirt front. Imagine the consternation of that official as musical scores and the shouts ofactors emerged from his bosom, wthe relentless attorneys continued the exhibition of their talkie! There might be great drama in that!However. The Love Trap” is good entertainment as It la. The story concerns a chorus girl who is forcedinto compromising circumstances bya clever villain, but whom she outwits with a sock on the nose.While the part Is in progress.Judge Harrington, a Jurist with playful proclivities, but solemn prerogatives, sees Laura and proceeds to think the worst Going home, thechorine finds ail her furniture on the curbstone because she has not paid her rent. A rainstorm comes up while she is trying housekeeping under the street lamp with an economy that would arouse the envy of even John and Florence. But along with the storm there comes the heroin a taxicab. Calling four more rabs (while United Taxi Cab mounts way beyond par) he loads her and her furniture into them and everything is “Singin’ in the Rain from that moment on. They are married, but the rich mans mother doesn't approve We forgot to tell you he was rich, but you knewf it as soon as we mentioned the four taxicabs. Then ihe Judge enters and says. Aren’tyou the little girl I saw In Guy Emery's apartment? Imagine her embarrassment. The old Judge won’t believe her innocence, so one fine dav she proceeds to compromise the Judge, Tills is done with hilariousresults,Miss LaPlante Is back Where she belongs—In comedy. She gets finished support horn Neil Hamiltonand Norman Trevor.Speaking of Norman Trevor reminds us of the story of Norman Trevor's trousers. Send us a letter1! you’ve heard it.We were in Hollywood while thispicture was in the making. We saw them taking part, of the scene where Miss LaPlante compromises Mr. Trevor. In this scene, in order to get him to take off his coat, she sets the coattails on fire with a cigarette lighter Now Mr, Trevor complained that even for art he did not desire a new dinner suit burned up. He suggested the Universal Film Corporation buy him a new suit when the picture was finished. Tills suggestion w as relayed on to the watch dogs of Uncle CarlLaemrale'a treasury.No, they said, he can’t have a new suit. Uncle Carl can't afford It. Let the costume department make him a coat to be burned up.Tills was done and Mr. Trevor wasgiven his specially made dinner Jacket, which was to be the burnt offering. But the Universal wardrobe department evidently had been lectured on economy. The coat must have been made of asbestos, It refused to burn.Everyone was in a quandary at, thestudio when there was a clatter and The Star’s Motion Picture Editor walked in from Japan. He, if he does say it himself, was loaded with ideas, •Taste a small piece of tarpaper on the inside of the coat, he suggested.with the air of one who knows his onions. At this William Wyler, the director, and Miss LaPlante wrung the hand of the visiting fireman and confessed there was nothing like having a great critical mind on thepremises.The scene then was acted The tarpaper was lighted. It proved The Star had a motion picture editor whose Judgment could be relied upon. The Universal officials were impressedwith that. Not only did the tarpaper set Mr, Trevor's coat on fire, but his pants ignited with a blaze of glory equal to the I-ast Gays of Pompeii. (It is our personal opinion that if Mr. rompeli’s pants had caught fire his last days would not have been as lingering ax they have been) Mr.Trevor went through the sceneconsiderable haste and emerged from It toasted. For several days he ate from the mantelpiece and there was a rumor around Hollywood that he had taken up polo. Those high inmotion picture circles did not confirm this.Anyhow. Universal had to buy him a new suit, all on account of The Star's Motion Picture Editor. Somehow, Mr. Trevor never seemed properly appreciative.Malnatreet—“Her Private Life. ’Lidv Hadfn Billi# Dov«NM Thaver ..... Walter TuitionHph Antnmnn Holme* HerbertRudolph Solomon .Holme* HerMrs L*s1ilt;5 r*U- .7,7/.7.7.TKeim^TrLimt Bruff Havdtn . • • • • •*£°ntMueHarrv Charteris ........Roland \Lov#,,foung. a iv ' Wilderlmr ........ Mary JorbejBir Emmett wikterinc. .Brtnq»n HtmtTifRnilns **»******#*#♦•**•*■Her private life” brings Bii-■ lie Dove to the Mainstreet In one of tho«e genteel dramas In which the world believes the heroine to be awicked, wicked girl, but the directorand the scenario department know her to be pure at heart.In this case the heroine is regarded as something of a martyr because she married a man for his money and. In the opinion of society, it was rathercriminal for this man to have money* Most shocking, don't you know, tho bounder was once a butcher, although he now owns Bloomenbully Towers and goes riding to hounds with geu-tlemcn.In England this sort of thing ma# he regarded as something of an offense against organized society, and also against the part of society thatl has never been smart enough to gelorganized. For Bloomenbully Towers.which was built by a Norman to b* owned by a butcher, to be owned b# such a fallow Is shocking. Itisrrtml* nal for a house built by a butcher ofi men to sink to the pos»session of aibutcher of hogsHowever, 4he lady who is the last*of the Somebody's soon frees herself from her brutish husband and goed bounding off to America. She secretly loves a Yankee, but she believes him to be a card sharper so she considers marrying an American captain of finance. Upon learning she was mistaken concerning the supposed card sharper, the financier break# their engagement, causing Billie 1«toss her lovely form beneath a passing Mack truck, which tied trafflrt in a serious knot near Forty-second(Continued on Page 18C.)
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1929
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