Show LOVE LOYE ON THE RUN RACES OVER OVE TRill TRAIL OF LAUGHS I Goofy Just plain goofy Theres There's no other way to describe Love on the Run which opened at the Paramount theater Friday With a nation Ration of moviegoers pay pay- ing hog cash for laughs and producers falling all over themselves to get on the band wagon M-G-M M releases its ita second smash comedy hit InLove in inLove inLove Love on the Run The picture with potent box office material in Clark Gable Joan Crawford Crawford Crawford Craw Craw- ford and Franchot Tone as stars and W. W S. S Van Dyke as director even eclipses Libeled Lady for impossible goofiness if such a thing is 15 possible A more or less enlarged version erslon of It Happened One Night the story deals with the antics of two foreign correspondents who fight I back and forth over Europe Europ for the I possession of a glamorous heiress Joan Crawford is the heiress who runs out on a 8 wedding because her groom wants a paltry for fora a 8 marriage settlement Gable is one correspondent and Tone the other with Gable of course winning out Joan is only Mrs Tone in ira real life so Franchot can afford to be left holding the sack in make believe Witty dialogue and those unmistakable unmistakable unmistakable touches which make Van VanDyke VanDyke VanDyke Dyke the No 1 box boz office director of Hollywood are the most notable features of the picture For instance the script calls for comedy so Van Dyke shoots the works to stage what is probably the goofiest sequence yet Clark an anJoan and Joan hiding in a French palace which has been transformed into a museum stage a 8 minuet to the tune I of f a tinkling music box and with witha a goofy caretaker whose best pal palis pals is s his nonexistent dog as the audi- audi ence nce Then Tone pursuing the pair decides decides deides de- de ides in the middle of the night to take a bath in a lily luy pond outside the palace and when his clothes are re stolen finally turns up In the i costume of Louis the something or other ther Although the chief plot of the picture centers around Joans Joan's efforts efforts ef- ef forts orts to get away from It aU and the reporters' reporters fight over who is to get et the story a dash of comedy in- in trigno is Introduced when Gable steals teals a 8 plane which belongs to international international in- in spies Their efforts to regain the map which he has found provide numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous opportunities for more goofy gags Needless to say Van Dyke makes the most of ot them Also in the cast are Reginald Owen and Mona Barrie Barnie as the spies a 8 bogus baron and baroness and Ivan van Lebedeff Also on the Paramount program are a technicolor travel talk a Pete Fete Smith novelty on hurling which is about on a a. par with the feature for or goofiness and Paramount i News I |