| Show Damon Runyon Film Wins Praise From Salt Lake Theatergoers By Dy FLICKER FAN Little Miss Marker as Damon Runyon might phrase it gives a citizen a break at the Paramount theater this week Even Regret th the hard boiled horse player would lay a a. bet on the success o of this delightful delight delight- ful ru plc o of Runyon's pop popular la story It brings to the thc screen a new starlet Shirley Temple who stands in a fair fairway fairway fairway way of ot becoming a sensation and Hollywoods Hollywood's favorite child actress It shows hows Adolphe Adoiphe suave screen lover over in a new role and he does a perfect job with it It marks what is 15 s probably the last screen appearance appearance appear appear- ance of ot Dorothy Dell the accomplished pushed star who was killed in a Hol Hoi Hollywood lywood automobile accident recently There is a splendid supporting cast and the direction is excellent Add these hese elements to a typical Runyon story and you have entertainment plus Little Miss Marker is Js a modern fairy airy tale with the dash of pathos and the wealth of humor that typify the usual Runyon story Shirley Temple is a revelation She plays th the role of a little waif walt tossed by y fate in the midst of a group of Broadway race track gamblers and other night life characters Her father broke but feverishly y determined de- de to place a bet leaves her as security for his marker with Sorrowful Sorrowful Sorrow- Sorrow ful ul Jones a bookmaker who Is known to o all and sundry as a very ery unfeelIng feel un-feel- Ing guy indeed the bookmaker Is stuck with the c child ild when the horse by prearrangement prearrangement pre pre- arrangement with the jockey loses and the father kills himself Sorrowful comes in III for much kidding kidding kid kid- ding from flom Bennie the thc Gouge Regret BI Big Steve and pals other pals but the bookie grows to love his little Marker Mark er although he attempts to hide his affection under a hard boiled ex ex- tenor Markie makes herself at home quickly in her new environment and soon picks up the argot of the race track rack Sorrowful is worried at the transformation a. a in the once charming charming- child and enlists the aid of ot Ban Bangles les Miss Dell The couple arrange a party for Sorrowful's Sorrowful's Sor- Sor charge who has named the various gamblers after the Knights of the Round Table her favorite fairy tale ale The gamblers shown up as a bunch of ot sentimentalists sentimentalists- instead of or the hard bitten lot they wish to appear appear ap ap- ap pear come to the party in jn suits suils of mail and otherwise dressed as King Arthurs Arthur's knights Here the comedy becomes hilarious Shirley again believes in her fairy world and becomes the lovable child of before especially after s seeing eing a arace arace arace race horse she knows as The Charger But tragedy interrupts Big Steve owner of ot the horse and Bangles' Bangles lover breaks up the party parly by accusing Sorrowful Sor Son of stealing his girl In the tho hubbub lubbub The Charger plunges lunges and Shirley Is 10 thrown and critically in in- The action develops quickly and md is climaxed by a surprise ending that has everybody beaming approval A the Sailor cartoon a Laurel and Hardy comedy and a Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount news reel complete th the bill Heart Breaker Opens at Orpheum A poignant story of heart-breaking heart romance is The Life Lile of ot Win Win- which opened Friday at th the Orpheum theater The story in brief is 20 years o olife of S life liCe in a small town by a woman woma I whose early love is sold out by he hex her father ather but who continues to surmount surmount- all aU obstacles in her search for happi happ ness A Against the background of a pe perfectly per per- perfectly portrayed panorama of ot exist exis ence enc in a 1 typical small American community community com corn S Ann Harding in the title ro roof role ole of the young milliner who holds he her her place in the face of ot withering scorn possible only among the righteous folks of a small town adds another chapter to a history of uniformly brilliant dramatic characterizations characterization Her ner Love Weds Another er erIt It would be difficult to imagine a different interpretation of Louis Vergie Winters after alter se seeing seeing see see- ing Miss Harding tug at the heart heart- heartstrings strings as a woman who sees he hex whole life IlCe pass by as her one love love lov I marries ano another her and adopts her own II I daughter The transition of John Boles from froma a budding operatic star to a rea real I actor in his own right is complete In Inthis this production As the favorite son son who through a misunderstanding I marries another but continues his first firs L LP love his work Is eclipsed only b by P that of at Miss Harding But as always a chain is 13 n no stronger than its weakest link a link a pi plc- plc ture tur is no stronger than its weakest scene That is why The Life o of Vergle Vergie Winters is such an excellent allaround around picture pIcture Director Director Albe Albert V Santell has left no weak scene Support Is Admirable From beginning to end it Is near nea perfection Admirably supporting th the thc Boles Harding-Boles combination is Helen Vinson as the wife of the favorite son and md the villain of the story Betty Furness Frank Albertson Molly ODay Wesley Barry Ben Alexander Alexander Al Al- Creighton Chancy and others others others oth oth- ers give excellent portra portrayals of small smaIl smalltown town characters Outstanding among many excellent bits during the performance is the strange in interlude of th the time old political meeting An amazing insight insight in in- sight of the probable thoughts of an at one of ot these those brilliant affairs is demonstrated through the thc asides of the various characters character Completing the bill are arc the usual shorts but even without them this is one picture that can carry of or its ilc own weight in an any company It willbe willbe will willbe be hl high h on the final list of the y years rs r's best |
