Show Novel ovel Mystery Romance Heads N New Double Bill at Orpheum By CANDID KAYIn KAY KAYIn In Iii Affairs of a Gentleman Universal has developed a. a new medium for lor treating murder mysteries mysteries and and th the result is rather a a. h happy one You can cati see It together with another length full-length feature Where Sinners Sinners Sin Sin- ners Meet currently at th the Orpheum theater Affairs of Gentleman based the His a on play Women In Life L Is b not in reality a murder inui-der mystery although a dead man a a. police pollee Inspector 1 and innumerable people are under examination cross at the scene of the crime But that c examination cross is 13 not a weary round found of ot qu questions and answers the flashback method aol is used and the various ch characters enact some of the events leading lending up to the crime itself Indeed T OO th theres there's fAc vi very rv little o nf of the I i 1 1 I Atmosphere re and trimmings of ot a mur mur-i mur 1 der mystery Its It's a story of ot the tangled tangled tan- tan led web of ot sev several ral peoples people's lives ives th he the shooting whether murder or sui- sui cide is is in reality incidental Ed Ed- win ivin L. L Marin Mann was responsible for the direction and with the exception of ot oton on ono or ot- two spots which dragged badly badly bad bad- ly did a cut clean and imd thoroughly acceptable job ob of ot it The picture opens with a shot and Gresham a famous novelist whose love stories are reputedly reputed reputed- ly based upon personal affairs is found dead at his desk by pis ChIS his frightened butler The police the publisher of Gresham's books a secretary and a husband and wife ar arrive on the scene and through the chance remark of ot the publisher machinery is setin set setin setIn in motion to explain the many complications of the setup Gresham has all but completed ed his latest work and is Js searching searching search search- ing lug for the logical end of ot his n new w story The publisher somewhat of a swine arranges a surprise party which Is attended by several sev seVe eral erat of ot the women who have loomed importantly in the writers writers writer's writ writ- ers er's love life and each of ol whom incidentally has furnished copy for a novel Apparently the motive for the murder of ot Gresham is bUrl burled d in inthe Inthe in inthe the many events which transpire during tho the party party but but well why spoil it for you I Honors for the picture without question go 0 to Sara Sua Haden in the he minor mi ml- nor role of ot the plain secretary and to Richard Carle Cache for isis his work vork as the publisher Carles Carle's delineation of the latter character eharD b by the b by is a gem em Paul raul Lukas in the role of tho the author author au au- au thor had a most difficult task before him and performed it well lib Ills was the tho job of creating a character who I deserved according according- to common com coIn mon man moral precepts and who nonetheless none none- nonetheless the less elicited a certain sympathy thy I and understanding understanding- from the audi audi- ence Patricia Ellis Dorothy Bur Burgess ess L Leila ila H Hyams am Lillian Bond Jo Joyce ce Compton and arid Dorothy LeBa LeBaire ire are arc cast as the lithe women in his life me and each made of ot the individual character charac character ter a credible finely drawn human being Onslow Stevens and Phillip Reed appear briefly in minor roles The second feature Where SInners SIn SIn- ners Meet was made from the A. A A. A Mime Milne story The Dover Road Road and and suf suffered ered unmercifully In its ts transition transition transi transi- tion to the screen Milnes Milne's stuff is whimsical and delightful to read rend but it becomes heavy and dragging in motion pictures Where Sinners Meet is talky to the exasperation point and to make mate matters Just a bl bit worse is wearily repetitious The idea of ol the stor story prom promised ed edmore more than was delivered A wealthy and eccentric bachelor living on th the Dove Dover road which is Js English for tor FarmIngton engages engages en- en en gages in the hobby of ot preventing prevent prevent- ing runaway marriages by detainIng detaining detain detain- ing the eloping couples and showing showIng show how howIng ing them up to each other in ro rOe ro- ro mance-denuded mance li light ht of everyday everyday- ness Diana W Clive Brook looking badly Indeed Alan Alan Al Al- an Mowbray Billie Burke and Reginald Owen are arc seen In the leading loading roles The odds of the play were too loo much for them Completing the too long bill is a an Edgar Kennedy comedy a Little Kin King cartoon and a newsreeL 4 0 e 0 TIT FOR FOIt TAT Warner Brothers are figuratively patting themselves on the back to d dit do doit doit it literally would be somewhat complicated com corn for outsmarting a wise guy guj who tried to nick em cm the other day The wise vise guy primed to the ear cars with tales of fabulous sums paid b by Hollywood producers for what the they want had a song title which just fi filed fitted fitted fit fit- ted led a swell dance an anti and 1 song sequence planned for lor a new picture Warners reasonably enough o ol of i A commercial stationed stationed sta ala honed at Bt Bogota Colombia a apparently saw nothing out of the way In his report to the Mo Motion tion Picture division United States Department of Com Corn merce In all seriousness he wrote that th Corned Comedy comedy comedy- drama westerns melodrama tragedy and sex iCE pictures seem to be most favored In Colom Cobra bia I f ered the gent smackers for fh the he S t title itle alone they didn't ne need d or wan want heI I the t he song In great dignity he he respond responded e ed d that the said title could be bought I f for lor or the modest little sum of s So So Warner Warners said the equivalent o of ot and struck out the seq sequence ence thereby saving th themselves m elves thousands in addition to the S S STARRING FOR FOll SHIRLEY Making phenomenal pr on the thc old oid success road little 5 8 year-old year Shirley Temple Little Miss Marker has been made a full lull fledged star Fox has purchased pur chased Million Dollar Baby as 33 asher asher her first stellar vehicle If It Shirleys Shirley's ys temperament temperament- which reared its h head ad the other day when she demanded and got ot a stand in stays in-stays stays under control control con con- all ought to be well She's a cunning little minx and plenty clever MORE LOWD LOW DOWN OWN Wanna know why that certain young writer director insists insUlts on remaining remaining remaining re re- re- re In London despite two fetch fetching ing offers for Hollywood jobs Well it seems that before belore leaving these here Hollywood parts for England En gland several months ago he went toa to tc toa a fortune teller who predicted that thai his mother and father both would die shortly while he w was close to them L tin in England Call it coincidence or ci- what you will but both his parents passed I away shortly after alter his arrival there Th The payoff pay on the is this The likewise predicted I that he would die on a 8 return voy age to America and AmerIca and hes he's taking herat her hei herat at her word ADD MARQUEE 1 The Affairs of a Gentleman Gentle Gentle- man man Where Where Sinners Meet TWO FOR MARGARET 1 Despite her uncomplimentary and and I verra verra public remarks public remarks about her past pat motion pictures Universal has gone ahead and purchased two more novels in which to present Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet aret Sullavan to her breathless pub pub- lie lic Apparently it pa pays s 's to be manlike and temperamental about things of that sort for tor she's drawn a couple of juicy plums plum They arc Ferenc Molnar's The Good Fairy and Within This Present by Margarct Margarct Mar Mar- garet A. A Ayer er Barnes You ti it jt out ep S CHEERING NOTE Heres Here's another of those cheerful cheer cheer- ful little earfuls designed tomake tomake to tomake make American movie house managers and owners feel right in the pink Business is so good In n Lisbon Spain picture houses that it is necessary for theatergoers to purchase tickets several days in advance and advance and the houses playing mostly American pictures How do you like them apples S BURNING Ricardo Cortez Carter is all burned u up p about a figurative smacking he r received received re re- e- e squarely on the chin the other othe er r day He had an exceptionally lon long g speech ch in his new picture and it r required re re- e. e quI red no little time and effort on o n his part to get it letter perfect With Wit h pride he went vent through his difficult lt paces at rehearsal Swell Ric said Tony Minor th the e director Now forget all about i it t. t Weve We've just written a brand new w speech for that scene and the old on one e you you do so beautifully is out So said was Rice Rices when the they y gave him the new speech |