Show r New Nelv Star in iL Debut Victory Has Unusual Comedy By CANDID KAY There Is a picture now now- playing at atthe atthe the Victory theater whose title may and probably bas hai had you A picture called Four Frightened Frightened Fright Fright- ened People might be a murder a mystery or a story Its It's none of these Its It's hokum bokum its it's Impossible fin Im- possible its it's incredible and its It's the movie fun youve you've had in a along along long long time Four Frightened People has adventure adventure ad- ad venture a smattering Ing of oC romance and a grand collection of laughs And It has as the of all this four exceptionally capable people peo- peo pie in the leading roles Claudette Colbert Herbert Marshall William Gargan and Mary MalJ Boland are the four frightened people and theres there's a a. quartet for The story its it's beginning ever so faIntly or of the Bridge of San Luis Luls Re Rey Four total strangers strangers-a braggadocio type or of newspaper correspondent correspondent dent a mousy little Chicago school teacher for fighting cause wife of a British official and a humble bumble chemist of a rubber rubber rub rub- ber factory are passengers aboard a ship bound for New York Bubonic plague breaks out on the vessel and they alone escape in a rowboat when the ship Is within rowing distance or of a tropical island They are re met b by a white man chief of a band or of savages and he be attempts to lead them through the jungle to a far distant town where they may catch a boat for home The They become lost In the and all sorts of fantastic things happen to them including a metamorphosis and revelation of oC character before they finaly final final- y reach safety The timid school schoolteacher teacher and chemist Colbert and Marshall Marsham who have been little people in normal life become great in their own minds and spirIt and the world famous correspondent Gargan Idolized the world over shrinks to his true size The officials official's wife Boland continues blithely blithe blithe- ly on her way and converts a band or of savages to her newest cause fewer babies before she sho again reaches civilization The They Said Want Vant to be beautiful Learn to fence and dont don't relax too much Frances Drake Humor Throughout There are so many funny sequences se- se s Its ft's hard to single out afew a few Cew for mention but Ill I'll warrant you never saw a more uproariously amusing bridge game than the one those tour four play in the heart of the jungle The adventures with co- co I I bras bow and arrow marksmen savages say say- ages wild animals and what not might De be thrilling It If they weren't so obvIously a grand pipe dream you just cant can't rouse any genuine steam even over the one or two killings Each ot of time tho tour four does docs his job ob so sowell sowell well cant can't rat rate one above e the other Though time the situation is out and out tim tho people are entirely en- en tirel convincing never do they step out of t character Mary Boland Doland Do- Do land as the fewer babies agitator because e the theS author gave ga her time the most hilarious lines linell comes nearest to stealing the picture but Miss 1 Boland Doland Do- Do land on the other hand didn't fluff a trick The only possible reason for the white man chief played none too well by Leo Carillo was the need for tor an Interpreter for the audience as to what all the native hullabaloo was about And that's a pretty good reason Subtitles on the screen were the only other out and that's a touchy dodge The Tho character wasso was wasso so utterly impossible one shouldn't condemn Carillo too harshly Dont Don't miss Four Frightened Peo- Peo pie Its It's Entertainment The second feature Vine It Women and Song stars the late Lilyan In it she played what she long yearned for for-a role ole rather than the horse clothes parts that wore were hers for so many years Lew Cody was his usually all ally sticky villain self Its It's not so hot and aud suffered doubly by comparison with the first class No I. I feature Handicapped by a grapevine ballyhoo bally bally- hoo as the new heart throb or of R a feminine femi nine nation and the matinee idol at whose shrine women flock block to worship worship wor- wor ship Francis Lederer made his Salt SaIt Lake debut In Man of t Two Worlds now at the Or Orpheum heum theater Many came to s scoff oU but by the end ot of even halt half ot of the picture stayed to cheer For For- Lederer In addition to beIng the answer to the movie tan fan maidens maiden's prayer is something more Hes He's an anAI anAi I A-I actor He knows his theater Lederer Is handsome In a vital way and hei he rot got such luch personal ai a. Is distinctly rare In Inthe inthe the tUrns films today In a sense hes he's the masculine Garbo Of f the screen creen If those two were ever co- co starred co-starred tarred It would be a firM fight to the finish but a terrific emotional strain on san an audience Inexplicably Inexplicably- enough nun men react to the of Lederer as well velI as a. women momen so 10 you cant can't dismiss the theman's mans man's appeal with the mere sex angle Jill His emotional scenes were stirring hl his joyous ones onu filled with an unforced spontaneity and his bin dramatic dra dra- matic ones done with a a. powerful sim- sim urn The picture itself is nothing great but engrossed in Lederer's perform performance ance you OU wont won't give a continental whoop about its obvious weakness weakness- patent artificiality and tion Its It's Q a story ot of a British bring ern back back alive alive ex expedition In the far north The services of Tago Iago an Eski mo renowned for his his' prowess in hunting are enlisted to aid them in bringing back certain Arctic animals for the London zoo In payment for his valuable services ser vices lago Iago asks but one a thing visit to the white mans man's land to see the white girl Joan daughter of the expeditions expedition's leader with whom he has fallen in love through her photograph His wish is granted Trying to adjust himself to English manners and morals and receiving disillusion from his goddess Joan naturally results in heartbreak for tor him He returns to his native land cling himself alien from the white bite race and his own alike Eventually he finds contentment among his own people and again gains pride and joy as as a great hunter Fine Supporting Cast Whether the error is to be chalked up against Elissa EliSia Landis Landi's portrayal of Joan against J. J Walter Rubens Ruben's direction or orthe orthe the character os as written by Ainsworth Ainsworth Ains- Ains worth Morgan it was in the se- se sequences with the white girl that the weakness ot of the production lion tion centered It was incredible that any girl could prefer the white Erick pictured as the ultimate ultimate ulti- ulti mate in sops milksops to the virile intelligent a and n d thoroughly charming I a ago g o. o LikewIse whether it was intentional or otherwise Elissa Landi has never given a more por- por She was so thoroughly unpleasant you wondered that her own father bather loved her let alone the idealistic lago Iago Henry Stephenson and J. J Farrel Far Far- rd rel MacDonald were fri ir their respective roles Sir of Basil and his partner Michael and the individual members of the ex cx expedition were uniformly vell cst cast Dont Don't wait for Lederer's in evitable next pIcture it may be too long in coming as he has again returned to the stage See this new film sensation now Universal is still trying to do some some- with thing Lew Ayres and md Lets Be Ritzy is the result The rhe usual success attends it A Littie Lit tie tle King cartoon with the kingdom gone N R A and a newsreel corn com the program P. P S. S Check the starting time and see Man of Two Worlds from the start |