Show Berkeley Square Is Unique New Picture at Paramount By CANDID KAY Upon rare occasions in this pillar pilIar weve we've ventured to give you youa n a spot of advice concerning the current picture fare tare in town and what to do about it You may mayor or may not have heeded have heeded those words BUT this BUT this is 15 s one time you had better lend a 11 careful car ear my lads and lassies When you go co to see Berkeley Barclay to you Square at the Paramount theater theater and and we heartily recommend this one one one-be be sure you get into the theater at the very beginning of or the opus If It you dont don't you'll think that either the picture or yourself is nuts and the picture isn't But it IS one of those things that unless youre you're In at nt the start and finish you'll spend most of the productions production's running time trying to figure lIgure out what its it's all nU about So for your convenience and in the hope that you'll listen to us this his once we even obtained the schedule for the thing Grab a a. pencil and jot em down 1208 and All p. p m. m Berkeley Square is a a. strange talc tale a clever romantic and tenderly lovely ovely one and Leslie Howard is as ns magnificent in the film version as ashe ashe he IB was several years ago in the stage production when Broadway took him ilm to its heart It stands apart from the program pictures of ot the day and for this Fox rates your deep appreciation STORY EVADES ACCURATE DESCRIPTION I I To endeavor to give you even a hazy conception of the peculiar quality of cir the the lie story is most d difficult The picture picure pic pic- ture ure in getting under your epidermis will show you the why of ot this ri right ht clear clearly learly Its It's like youve you've said probably I I know what I mean and feel but I cant ant just express it It is a combination of oC fantasy and drama rama deftly interwoven In it is told old the story of at a sensitive idealistic young young American of 1933 engrossed in n the eighteenth century century 1784 1784 to be bel Girl Trouble an amusing amusin Vita Vita- phone hone musical comedy short done in colors and a newsreel complete the bill ill In the former you have another chance hance to watch a local boy in the thc process of ot making good in Hollywood I life exact exact life through inheriting a house housein in Berkeley Square in London In Ithe it ithe ithe he finds the complete records of the household and all its members at that time Becoming absorbed in them longing for a glimpse into that byRone bygone by by- bygone gone Rone time he evolves a theory of Gods time time past past present and nd fu ture turc all seen from the same one eye Thoroughly modern to his arid and slang he suddenly becomes transported trans trans' transported ported a as a contemporary in that period period pe pe- pe- pe nod of or his ancestor Peter Standish for lor whom he was named PAST AND PRESENT COMBINED I He discovers soon enough there is 15 iso no o place for him in this life he has entered that he is strange to it Uncomfortable uncomfortable un- un comfortable in it and cannot escape The girl of his choice is a girl who has las lain lam in St. St Marks Mark's graveyard for 49 years The girl he must and did marry according to the diary he didn't love at all Terrifying Cere I But there arc are delightful bits of t hu hu- mor mar in the production Humor that is delicate and appealing The consternation tion of the members of the exclusive club when he insists on daily baths his confusion in conversation when he gets the past and the present tangled We listened and w watched intently the audience reaction around us people people peo pee pie were vere vastly disconcerted by this picture and said so but stayed to the thela thelast thelast la last t fadeout Heather Angel from Great Britain is charming as Helen the girl of his ils heart and other members of the cast are equally well chosen but Itis it its is s Howards Howard's picture from beginning to end Just as was the play And Howard is more than strong enough to carry the burden of this heavy load oad on his slim shoulders LOCAL BOY IN SHORT SUBJECT I Hes He's Gordon Westcott who played on Salt Lake stages under his legal tag of Myrth Hickman This is one of the lightest things Gordon has done and were we're inclined to think hes he's better cast castin castin castin in heavier roles They Sa Said d I IMen Men I believe are the same today as they were hundreds of or years ago Dorothea Wieck LOCAL GIRL ON CAPITOL BILL THE THE Danny Danny OShea doing an m m. c. c job ob this week at the Capitol and Tand and what a load of Erin he packs in THAT brogue rogue isn't the only local product on n the bilL Even more authentic from rom the home town angle is the blue blue- eyed ced girl who lends him a nice big helping hand in his song routine and rates ates a generous I response from the audiences for lor herself Quite rightly too oo She's Gwen Beck former East high ls school chool and University of Utah student I GET OUT THE TIlE HANDKERCHIEFS Dorothy Burgess cast as the moll moIl of f a gang in Miss Fanes Fane's Baby Is Stolen at Paramount balked when one certain line was given n her hero herto herto to o speak The line Take your hands off oft that baby baby hes he's hes worth ten en grand grando to o us La Burgess delivered her ulti Ill s say y take your hands off ff that baby but I Just CANT CAN'T add Hes He's worth ten grand to us Why every very woman in the world would go goway 0 away way haUn hating me t forever rever Stop oh stop atop Dorothy Youre You're breaking our hearts and daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Benja Benja- min ruin S. S Beck When she takes her makeup of off each night Gwen goes home to 1029 First avenue The current Capitol engagement isn't Gwen's theatrical debut by any means she won a few laurels in m the Gus Edwards and Sammy Lee musicals musi cals for in Hollywood and has done more than a bit of ether singing to boot And b by the by Danny hows how's the Salt Lake har harem m weve we've heard youre you're boasting these days THE PRICE OF SOMETHING Joyzelle call caU her noted Oriental Orients though American dancer paid a a. pretty tiring p price for tor her work ork orkIn In The Girl Without a Room which is nearing Hearing completion She couldn't sit down from 9 a. a m. m to 6 G p. p m. m Her costume for tor her dance consisted consist consist- ed cd of ot one ounce weighed and checked of flesh colored chiffon the delicacy of THAT and anda a design painted hand on her wholly adequate curves here and there Paint cracks and chips off when you ou sit It seems Add Colossal Items Geo George ge Raft has just bought five new suits bringing his total to 35 He also has ha over fine white linen ha handkerchiefs Had You Heard About This Helen Hayes has opened her stage engagement in New York The new play is Mary ul of Scotland When she he returns to Holly Hollywood her new pix may be Vanessa Vanesa Hugh Walpole's Wale Wai- poles pole's sensational sequel to The Fort Fort- ess ress resSo Mary Pickford and Dougas Douglas Doug Doug- las as Fairbanks d didn't talk about love loveon loveon loveon on that transatlantic telephone call The conversation was confined to a business discussion regarding the sale of their interest in United Artists to Century Fay East Is West Vest BaInter has returned to her native Hollywood wood to make her bow in iri motion pictures Her first flicker will be a al Lionel Barrymore vehicle Lilian LilJan Harvey is suing Fox to enjoin the company from forcing her to make French and G German rm ri sound records of made Hollywood films She insists separate pictures must be made for foreign distribution if Jt her popularity on the continent is to lobe be preserved Vivian and Rosetta Duncan may not be allowed to discharge their worth of debts through bankruptcy proceedings The referee in the matter is Lu some curious about abou that Topsy and arid Eva earnIngs earnings carn earn earn- ings Item which to date is Lu unreported ed cd This should hould cheer a lot of or people holding the Duncan sack |