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Show tor D0ust -k Goofy Comedies 'The Sheik' Is Funny Restless Holiday uy Virginia Vale IT LOOKS more and more as if goofy comedies were on the wane. First Carole Lombard said she'd have no more of them. Now Claudette Colbert, who helped to start the cycle with "It Happened One Night," has balked. It was planned that she would do "Are Husbands Necessary?" when ( t - y , 4 ',, i ' v- 7 "' A CLAUDETTE COLBERT she returned from that European jaunt, but instead she'll go to work In "Midnight," which is romantic and dramatic and everything but goofy. Speaking of "It Happened One Night," it was revived recently in New York, and a lot of people who'd heard about how funny it was but had missed it the first time round had a chance to see It. And the addicts who went to It over and over when it was first released found it just as funny as ever. The revival of Valentino's "The Sheik," seems to have been Ill-advised. Any picture that old Is bound to look funny nowadays. And the generation of movie-goers that has grown up since the days of Valentino Valen-tino Just couldn't understand why he had been such a world-beater. Some of them roared with laughter. laugh-ter. They thought Agnes Ayres, the heroine, a bit too fat though in her day she was considered streamlined! stream-lined! However, no matter what the young folks thought of that picture and the other Valentino revival, "The Son of the Sheik," they brought mobs to the theaters and money to the box offices. It looks as if George Arliss had been tempted into returning to Hollywood, Hol-lywood, thanks to Samuel Goldwyn. Goldwyn has a picture called "The Exiles" on the fire, based on the stories of the many famous men who have had to leave their homes in Europe because of political troubles. trou-bles. Arliss would play the role of a distinguished scientist. Warner Brothers will, nt last, screen "The Miracle," with Bette Davis In the coveted role of the Nun. Ever since It was so successful success-ful as a dramatic spectacle in London Lon-don in 1911 and in New York in 1924 there has been talk cf doing it for the screen. Now, with Max Reinhardt, its original producer, available, they are ready to start. When Bob Burns ducked away from Hollywood for a rest rrcnara- tory to taking over the Bing Crosby radio program pro-gram for the summer, he didn't do so well in choosing a spot to rest in. He and his wife went to New York, but were so besieged by people that they loft nnd went to Buffalo he wanted to fnWhCrANi3nra Bob Burn, falls. And the public caught up with them npain. He might try wearing a mask, if he really wants to rcstl Margaret Talllclu-t, n comparative compara-tive newcomer to tlio sm-cn, will bo Kanum Novarro's leading woman wom-an in "As You Are." When and If "Gono With tlio M ind" rcai'lirs tlio screen she Mill bc soon as Karoon O'llarn, jomiRor KIster ot Scarlet. IMiss Talliclict ti led the summer theaters the-aters In the Mast last year. N' , onns Ah i;xn$-xanry o.m.z "'',' bo "''' on the srrmi u.im in U,rr (,, fl;y Jui,r I'orhuulh,,!, a u-,cm l,c, lun,U, r, iho if suit of ,mtou,l,ii ,.,.,., , , , My ;,,. .,,-, . A,,1(f v "''iCMii oul,lo that J, hi C.i-i 1.1 . .riK . , ,.,-ow up; h rr-"'" rr-"'" "rr"'";''' f rt hi .-.wmimci "" u n,sj ,, k,,;,in CO,) a "v."l ll7,'r"'',-'''''i':"" ; ""'r huslm,l tl,rrtrtu;l t hum,!,- '".r !,y f'"X a jot, in s, ,,, '"""''" tuning , . , , ' r r,lrp. ,,,, ,,,,,,.,, Women N.w,,,,,,,,, Union. |
