| Show I Capitol Paramount and Victory Offer New Nelv Film Fare fo for Week WeekS eek S By CANDID KA KAY I Not having seen the stage production product tion of Stand Up and Cheer which from all accounts raised the pulse of nf the New York theatergoIng publIc quite a few degrees its it's impossible to say whether the film version now playing at the Capitol theater resembles bles it in anything but bul b basic idea But Butil it il seems to me it must have lost the thee e essence nce somewhere somehow be because c cause use it is rather commonplace en cn There Is novelty in the framework frame frame- work ork of the picture A cabinet post of secretary of amusement is created by the president to help lift the morale of the American public out of the red This naturally nat nat- uraIl gives rise to md and the opportunity tunit for presenting a flock of song dance and spectacle enter enter- which it does Playing in a minor key Is the plot note or of opposition by those of the land who are fattening on the hard times Umes of millions of the rest or of us and their fight to keep the depression in a blooming healthy state Incidentally there is the suggestion of a love story between be be- tween the secretary and one of his able and pretty assistants The entertainment is the wildest hodge podge of numbers ever collected collect collect- ed In one picture from hill billies to talking penguins Some of its it's more than fair some of its it's mediocre some of its it's and one bit that of languid Stepin demonstrating his entertaining ability abil abil- ity is s outright swell Or else Stepin to me me is funny in anything Steals Show Warner Baxter Is the secretary and aud hes he's fair as the nervous ener- ener getic slightly impresario ot of the nations nation's stage stag screen radio circus et ct at al entertainment Madge 4 Evans attractive enough has little littleto to do but receive his affections when he hc gets time to think about her md and pia play prettily with various arlous and sundry children in her childrens children's department Stepin doubles in brass dividing dividing- his time between song dance and monologue and straight office boy Nigel Bruce In the other straight role is disappointing JOhn Boles sings one number a rather plaintive melody ns as do Aunt and Sylvia S1 James Dunn and the most adorable and talented tal tal- minx youve you've seen on the screen Shirley Temple take care of the i dancing Mad nonsense is furnished In a tumbling slapping act by Mitchell Mitch Mitch- ell eli and Durant and the aforementioned talking penguin in an tion of Jimmy Durante Nick Foran contributes a laugh getting hill billy character number Costuming advertised as elaborate rate and so on and so on on is distinctly dis- dis ordinary and the spectacles spec are pretty much in the same class the hip hip hooray songs of Were Out of the Red and Im Laughing Stand Up and Cheer has several tuneful ditties Among them are re Boles Boles' Last Night of Love Broadway Gone Cone Hill HUl HillBilly Billy and Baby Take a Bow In addition to a Merrie Melody cartoon and a newsreel the bill pre sent a travelogue short of Zion canyon can can- yon done in n color and with narra tive When the great artists of the world have tackled the presentation on of the peculiar coloring of that country coun try and admitted themselves licked it is presumptuous ol 01 the movies to attempt it with their lS as yet et unperfected color process Those who haven't seen this scenic spot in Utah may stand in wonder at this picture Those of you who have been there will realize how far it VICTORY PLEASES Average entertainment may be found at the Victor Victory theater this week in its double bill offering Lazy River and Beggars In ErmIne Lazy River brings to lo the screen the team of Jean Parker and Robert Young in a river romance centered around the backwater bayous of Lou Dill Bill Young carne came here with the intentions to blackmail Miss Min Mm- nie Maude Eburne the mother of a ayoung ayoung young man he knew in prison Mw MISS Minnie is not as rich ns as Dill Bill has been lIed led to believe and is about to lose her home to lo Sam Kee a Chinese smuggler Bill falls falls' in love with Min Mm- ziles zile's daughter bler Sarah Miss Miss Parker and with wilh the aid of his two 10 pals Gabby Ted Healy and Tiny Nat Nal Pendleton sets sels about aboul to Save their home Gabby md and Tiny furnish laughs throughout the film The Sequence se- se quence in which Tiny steals the money out of Sam Kees Kee's safe to pay It If you want better than an hour of fast action pleasant romance and uproarIously funny dialogue In mo tion picture form its it's yours for the taking in Looking for Trouble the current Twentieth Century release n now w playing at the Paramount the the- ater Looking for Trouble is what shat I call corking good entertaInment It Isn't great gigantic tremendous or even cn colossaL It hasn't any super super- spectacle sh shots ts although h the reproduction of the 1933 earthquake unpleasantness un un- pleasantness In Long Beach comes close to hitting that mark dazzling beauties handsome heroes or the like But it is entertain entertaIn- I In lag from start st to tho kind ot of a picture which leaves you ou well pleased with yourself the world and movies In Dont Don't I beg of you mistake Looking Look lag ing for fOl Trouble for just another trouble shooter repairmen repair repair- men movie It is so far lar superIor in ever every respect to Ive Got Your Number which played locally not so long ago as to make comparisons out of the question Its It's difficult to know exactly where to start handing the well earned bouquets The story itself is as good a point is as a ay and Leonard and nd Elmer Harris may stand for their bow bowon on it It Il sparkles from beginning beginning begin begin- ning to end and if on occasions the dialogue approaches the naughty naughty line it is deftly done and you'll be laughing so hard you ou wont won't care anyway anway There is no monotonous narration of exaggerated perils and excitement What exciting things do happen are arc brought in casually and thereby pack 1 greater punch And there is a definite den nite story into which the trouble troubleshooters shooters not fit one or of those heres heresa a couple of trouble shooters what'll we do with them things Joe Graham Gra Gra- ham and Casey repairmen stumble onto a plot to rob a bank in the course of theIr duties investigating a tapped wire It develops into n a murder in which Joes Joe's girl Ethel becomes heavily involved But at no notime notime time does the picture become top top- heavy with plot Director William Wellman saw to it that the pictures picture's goal with plenty of was laughs reached in a straight line which as you remember js is the shortest distance between two point paints Entire Cast Clever Spencer Tracy one of my prime favorites because he is ever wholly at ease case and never fumbles around In bringing his character to convincing life lUe is teamed with the irrepressible Jack Oakle And what a team the they make makel You'll put the Oakie lad right back on your okay list after seeing him in this one Constance Con Con- stance Cummings and Arline Judge who's never appeared to better advantage take care ot of the heart interest end of the stOl story with Cummings figuring strongly in the plot JudIth Wood she or of the blond beauty and peculiar rasping voice cuts another notch on good perform perform- once belt as the female menace Morgan Conway w Paul Haryey hes he's swell in a minor role Joseph Jo seph and Franklyn Ardell complete the credited cast although al al- though you get a few ew glimpses it If Im I'm Im I'm not mistaken of that old favorite Bryant Washburn It If you want to lo forget your trou bIas bles go Looking for Trouble Short subjects for the bill include an always amusing Screen mrs firs and my radio favorite Jack Little LUlIe in a musical novelty Heretofore hes he's been but an I ether voice and personality I wa glad lad to experience no in his visual materialization off a mortgage held by Sam wa amusing Second Feature Beggars in Ermine proved as pleasing as the first feature Lionel Atwill noted for his per por- of this sort takes the part or of n a cripple who loses his legs in a steel milL While in the hospital he is deserted b by hIs wife and betrayed by his friend Marley His main purpose becomes be be- comes revenge He meets a blind beggar and with his aid they form a beggars unIon Through this Atwill At acquires great power He finally achieves the goal he had in mind regains his status In the mill he loves almost as much as life Supporting him in inthe inthe the film tum are H H. B. B Walthall Betty Belty Furness arid and Thomas There is is' also a Hollywood on Pa Parade rade novelty and a new Car Reynolds |
