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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1933
Page
9
A week of screen entertainment begins Sunday in Joliet with six feature films including three super production titles. The program promises wide emotional appeal across genres and a host of stars throughout the schedule. One of the biggest shock dramas and Hell's Angels opens the week.
MGM submarine drama Hell Below features Robert Montgomery Walter Huston Madge Evans and Jimmy Durante with Pearl Harbor on location for atmospheric undersea action. The film blends perilous battles with a tragic romance as a submarine crew battles destroyers and a fortress.
In the Thatcher Colt tale The Circus Queen Murder a close knit circus family becomes the backdrop for a puzzling crime. Adolphe Menjou stars with Greta Nissen in a Columbia film adaptation, following Menjou's Night Club Lady success.
Roland Young stars with Alison Skipworth and Sam Maritza in a comedy titled A Lady's Profession. Young says speakeasies in New York are using barmaids to draw crowds, with half a dozen swank spots adopting the tactic to lure patrons.
Sunday through Wednesday Hell Below stars Robert Montgomery Madge Evans Walter Huston and Jimmy Durante. Thursday through Saturday Peg O My Heart features Marion Davies and Onslow Stevens. Princess on Sunday only The Circus Queen Murder with Adolphe Menjou Greta Nissen. Monday and Tuesday Perfect Understanding with Gloria Swanson. Wednesday and Thursday When Strangers Marry with Jack Holt Lillian Bond. Friday and Saturday Forbidden Trail with Buck Jones.
Critics may see saccharine film characters but this version centers on a temperamental construction engineer and his heiress wife. Jack Holt plays the husband while Lillian Bond portrays the wife who stays loyal as they face heat and fever in the jungles of Java after a Paris celebration.
The review praises the film Perfect Understanding at Princess featuring a powerful performance by the star who embodies a theory of perfect understanding and freedom in marriage. Cyril Gardner directs with notable visuals and humor, while gowns by Rene Hubert wow the audience and spark fashion interest.
Buck Jones stars as a carefree cowboy who uses a sly slingshot to spark action among rough cowboys in Forbidden Trail showing Friday and Saturday at the Princess. The cast includes Barbara Weeks Mary Carr Wallis Clark Frank La Rue George Cooper and Frank Rice with direction by Lambert Hillyer.
Marion Davies stars in Peg O' My Heart on the Rialto screen bringing new life to the twenty year old stage favorite. Onslow Stevens plays Sir Gerald as the play blends romance and comedy with a gentle, poetic tone.
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