| Show Good Dame at P Paramount F Fails ails to Reach M March P Pai Ul By CANDID KAY Good Dame now playing at the Paramount theater is 15 nothing to get excited about but by the same token its it's nothing to occasion a groan about how the movies are these days Its It's just an between in-between little program picture that has some exceptionally bright spots and Fredric March hitting on eight a of his 16 cylinders The March motor hitting on eight steps awn away front from the full strength of the average actor 1 If that Is any consolation The chief fault aul of Good Da Dame e lies lies lies' in the stor story Itself Its It's a pretty feeble vehicle and far from worthy of March or petite Sidney for that matter mat mat- ter They struggle along as best they can to make you feel or even believe that two such people ever existed and the things things' that happened might have occurred E Every so often you ou sense that March Miss Sidney the director and everybody else just gave the whole thing up as hopel hopeless theres there's an indifference nce and listlessness listless listless- ness ne-cs manifested that is alien to March pictures Then comes one ot of those Well lets let's make the best of it H spurts and the tempo lempo picks up again for a while March plays Mace a wise guy in a carnival who has an ever ever- ready eye and line for lor dames and works on the love lo em cm and leave em basis Quite naturally natural natural- l ly he strikes a snag In the form or of Lily SylvIa who doesn't play ban ball accordIng to these rules She has her purse snatched while watching March work his shell game and thus being financially embarrassed joins the show as a dane dane- er The villain Jack LaRue pursues her with no success and finally kicks her out of the show Thereupon March goes noble despite the fact he hasn't got gotto gotto to first Its base the stirrings ot of love within him you ou see and leaves the show too She persuades per per- him to take up a little honest work for a change which he do doe while still trying to sell her an Idea You know the an- an and so does everyone e in inthe inthe the audience long before it hap hap- pens Fredric March is too finished and capable an actor to bungle the role and his Mace has moments of charm Its It's just that the character can not escape being false Sylvia Slvia Sidney's Lily is not only pure and honest she's deadly dull Jack LaRue pIns plas it on h avy as the villain villain-so heavy you want to sneak up say Boo and scare him away Russell Hopton as Maces Mace's shill and Noel Frances as purr Puff Maces Mace's handy girl girlfriend girlfriend friend are okeh Why Paramount wasted the March or of Death Takes a Holiday on Good Dame is one of those things that make the pIcture business the quaint and inexplicable thing it Is Short subjects for th the bill include a reel one musical of sorts and another another an- an other of those Patsy Todd concoctions or of nonsense called this time Maid in Hollywood That Kelly girl is natural and funny fun tun ny before beCore she moves a hand or opens her mouth They said When I go to Europe Instead or of seeing points or of interest I become one Jeanette MacDonald MARY GETS TilE WORKS Mary Marj BrIan was vas boasting that she had so many luncheon invitations she has carried a 5 bill with her herfor for tor over a year without spending it So Phillips Holmes and Ned Sparks invited her to have lunch with them and then walked out leaving her with the check that hat made short work of the 5 bill That they tossed over their shoulders evens things up a little bit for the male contingent FROM FROl SOUP TO NUTS You can always tell a prop m man m but you OU cant can't tell em anything to surprise sur sur- prise em is Hollywoods Hollywood's paraphrasing paraphrase ing of the old gag For experience has forced the men who supply the properties for pictures into some tight corners corner and they have had to develop that not eye trick in Here for example is the list of oC props Norman handed the property and location department for Were Not Dressing Sounds like a glorified treasure hunt One large iSland with jungle One palatial steam yacht One live gorilla One water bicycle One set of footprints One floating tool kit with tools Two stone hammers One ocean steamer One shotgun One dead duck One case of prop whisky One ocean freighter with captain cap cap- lain tain One pair ladies ladies' One passenger steamer with captain One lion One map One bear One hundred and fifty clams Add F r. r A. A Items Joel McCrea l hall hs 26 bath bath- lug suits Hults The only one or of them apt to get damp In the new pool on his estate is a pair of dark blue trunks I I START I IA FRESH A name to watch this year is that J of Jean Arthur who by no means j jis is new to the screen A few years ears ago aco Jean was playing some pretty big roles Then she hIt one of those I slumps for which the business is I noted 1 There wasn't wasn any particular rca rea son for it but jobs just stopped coming com ing her way Discouraged she decided decided de- de to go to New York There she played on Broadway for two y years rs Now she's back in iii Hollywood and cuddling a fat contract You'll see her fIrst under this fresh start as s leading lady with Jack Holt in Whirlpool |
