Show H Has as Heavy Drama I In Stol Story of Crime ny By CANDID KAY KAYIn In Youre Telling Me Mc the Paramount theater gave you 1 0 utter non non- sense In Catherine the thc Great they gave you OU a new star and some magnificent pageantry In Good Dame you 1 0 got light come comedy y In Bott Bottoms ms Up they gave you OU n a gay musical comedy No wIth Journal or of Crime the Paramount gives you OU heavy drama to round out the film menu This new starring vehicle for tor Ruth Chatterton opened Tuesday for fOl n a four day run Ruth dotes on h Y l drama it gives her an excellent outletS out out- letS let for all that emotion pent up in her And Journal or of a Crime is heavy plenty heavy In the story the husband huband is waiting for Chatterton to break under the strain but the audience darned near beat her to the punch From the beginning shot in ill which YOU OU see Chatterton huddled in the thc dark fear and despair filling her eyes until the thc final fadeout there isn't one light scene cene nothing to relice relieve re re- lieve lic the drip drip drip of the thc emotional emotional emo- emo erosion Since this was 55 audience reaction It speaks well for the author and c tor br for such undoubtedly was wa their mutual Intention and Chatterton took them at their intention I would have h liked her better If she had parted company with that hang dog dor expression once In a while It One must be said for her she's no not afraid to look old and unattractive md and after Journal or of a Crime get eb under ay she does that In a 1 bl bl way For or a change too she discarded some of her S. Iah Adolphe though billed as the supporting lead to my mind was the star of of a Crime A goodly half or of the terror or of Chatterton's Chatter Chatter- tons ton's situation was silently expressed in his cruel and penetrating eyes His was a most difficult part It was unsympathetic from a moral viewpoint view view- point from the be beginning inning yet somehow some some- how or other you never quite blamed the old boy for the fiendish punishment punish punish- ment he forced her to inflict on herself her her- self through silence The story of oC Journal of a Crime mc tells of oC a woman who has ha lost the love QC gf her husband and andIs andIs Is facin facing the loss Joss of the man him him- self elf To o keep him she he kills the woman who has hac taken her place In his affections He refuses to turn her over to the thc police knowing know know- ing and telling her that the guilty knowledge within her will be punishment enough From there thereon on the story wearily drags through the breakdown process until at last she admits admit defeat On her way to give herself herscH up she is injured saving a 1 childs child's life When she he emerges from the thc has hos pital she is as a newborn child All memory even to the names of objects and their use has gone sone Thereupon he does doce a right about face nd assumes the role of her devoted and loving Joing teacher Fadeout Fade Fade- out with sky sky- ward vard and saying Sun while she nestles on his shoulder and mur mur- iri is i's Dear I IThe The fault of the stor story lies in the ending It is as as' as stupid as it is mogi cal Until the point ot of the accident was a tortured woman dying because she relentlessly refused re- re fused to yield to a power stronger than herself Why not let he her die dic land and be done with it Certainly Journal of a Crime is not a pretty story Why destroy its pow pow- er cr with s such ch idiotic happy ending drivel S Shorts o on the bill include my old favorite lavonte PopEye Pop the Sailor cleaning up a touch joint Its It's swell There is also a musical comedy short a 8 Pictorial Review Rc and a repeat on the newsreel of last weeks week's program THEY TilEY SAID If we cannot have hac both art artand artand and dividends then let us disregard dine gard ard art and go Co after the dh divi S Welford Beaton n. n ON A SOAP BOX nox The class clas in in the films will please come to order I have an honest urge to climb upon the soapbox No Greater Glory is a fine pIcture plc- plc lure ture free from even one suggestive line linc or r situation and exceptionally vell done Elysia was hokum and vulgarity I carried to the nth degree And yet yet- During the first three days das of oC I Its Salt Lake showing people at attended No Greater Glory During Durin the p period attended Ely Ia To the point of oC that as plain to you as it Is to theater managers No Greater Glory grossed In that period as compared to for Those are and fig urea ures dont don't lie They certainly bear out Mike Newmans Newman's contention that the public through support or orl lack of it is responsible for the prey alence of objectionable lines JInes and nd scenes in the modern movie After all producers and exhibitors are notI in business for their respective Six timeS as man mam people paid money to see a vulgar expose of nudism as they did a great and ring That should give in and which have been yapping about filth in films lUms something to consider It looks Jook I suspiciously like one of those do as is not hot RS as I do things i S e I. I AND EUROPE The script of a big biS production with ith a Civil war var background was handed a famous novelist and screen creen writer to read the other day d When he had finished the studio asked him Do you ou Ui think it if will offend the south Yes he hc replied And the north tool toolS S 'S A BLOND ONE Mae Mac Vest ill star in The Q Quen een or of Sheba as her next production which William Le Baron will handle The story which will bear that title is David Boehms Boehm's For My Country Coun try Wonder it if Mae Mac is going in for tor face black and or what Anyway she's canceled all plans for fora a personal appearance tour and will start Sheba as soon a as she has corn com It Aint No Sin Since he si signed ned a new term deal with about a week ago ngo Leo Carrillo has officiated at five civic banquets three luncheons lunch lunch- eons COIlS and a breakfast club mc meet meet- t. t in ing In each instance he was the official representative or of Since he has not yet et received an assi assignment to a picture Leos Leo's just what his official status actor is-actor or greeter ma NESS'S In idor has ordered sO 40 or of seeds and plants to start the largest larrest summer garden In the west vest for use In United Artists Artists' Our HOur Dally Daily A NEW ANGLE Heres Here's a new Hollywood angle to prove pro Old Man Depression ion is hitting for Cor the tall timbers The pawn brokers brok brok- ers or of Los Angeles who have held heldman heldman man a stars star's jewels in hock in ex cx- change for tor some quick cash lore are chorusing their jewelry doesn't live here any more When business was at the bottom of the red line chart the books of prominent diamond loan Joan merchants read like a who's who of oC the film great creat Only two big stars and a few business bigwigs now have the family j jools under the three balls banner Loans which mounted to a month in some ot of the larger shops have now dropped to and less That old saying saIng You ou can feel a nations nation's pulse through the pawn pawnbroker pawnbroker broker seems to hold good e S What would you ou make ot of this Watsons The posterior ot of this woman Is too prominent change the can It wu was a note from a censor to the department of a studIo |