Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-18
The Weeks Attractions in Local Theaters
Reviews Of New Photopays and Stage Productions

equal or. superior to Miss Pickford's.
| there comes to mind not male IN
Hollywood who could SurpaSS Fairbanks
conception of the robuStious, woman
tanning Petruchio. His work is not only
fraughtswith the cunning htlarity that
we have come to associate with him,
| but has a full and native dramatic feel
/ ing. He reads the Bard's blank verse
with. real flow; Mary does not.
That Tanning of the Shew" trans
lates so successfully to Hollywood treat
n1ent does not mean, OF course, that
all of Shakespeare could be equally hap
1tpily transpoSed. The Shew was writ
ten in boisterous. slapstick fashion
and was very possibly meant to be
acted so Cat least as concerns Grumio,
here done by Clyde Cook. The mere
fact, therefore, that THE Tanning OF
the Shew" makes a plausible slapStick
talkie is not astonishing but what 1t
may. serve to do s(and let. those. laugh
who wild is to introduce Shakespeare
as an actable playwright to numberless
tofore considered him diStaStefully
highbrow. If there is riotous and un-
restrained comedy. In, 1.-The Tanning of
the Shew" chow they laughed when
the impeccable Pickford fell of a horse
into mud puddleD there is also. in
proper actors hands, marvellous drama
in Lear" or, The Merchant" And
Macbeth" with the current rage for
blood, should be a box office stampede.
Fancy 1t with william Powell Sleuthing
about!
But, taking it on its own merits this
newest offering. of."The Tanning, of the
Shew" is gleeful, jesting,. vigorous
piece of talking cinema, 1t is worthy
of the attention Of every unit in the
social cross-Section, from the critical
laughs only at what he sees before
Inn. IT is Shakespeare as the Mack
'Sennett Of his day, a chair-hurling,
pit-playing rowdy, scribe-but. wise
WtthaI, F, G. o,
EARLF, In 1.-THE Love Doctor, !"
-, Richard Dix takes his Co
he LCve lufnbia, TheateE audience
Doctor back to the old days, when
the films, getting along right nicely
without any voice, had such happy
Wally Reid. Pictures without plots Of
importance-just happy, with enough
humQr and girls to sufice. - I.
Whistling pictures. Ones mind went
back to an earlier picture of Douglas
Fairbanks in the days when Fairbanks
produced several pictures year.. WITH
out OVERRIDING himself, Fairbanks, did
nothing but whistle Believe Me II All
Those Ehdearing Young Charms" and
make love to some one or other. But
the picture sticks in memory these long
years. 's.sI &
Dix portrays a young physician whose
appearance and of1ices are sufficiently
attractive to lure the patronage OF
many women, chiefly young. But it's
all work and no play; because DIX re-
CARDS women from a text book slant.
The plot is accounted for by his nurse,
who is pretty, and who begins to see
in her employer good huntin'" Fail
ing in all her initial approaches, she
stumbleS upon the undeniable fact that
man can be interested If he Is first
made jealous.
Thus she accomplishes her end by
pretending to fall In love with a frail
young male whom she. accompanies,
at doctors orders. on a health trip.
The doctor misses her first in a pro-
fessional way, then discovers, when
confronted with evidence of the sup
posed love affair, that he's loved his
nurse quite awhile.
June Collyer plays the nurse. She is
vtvacious and pretty: -,
The remainder of the bill has IN
tereSting parts. The Evening Star
Guided, with the Earle Orchestra, q
comedy and short subjects. J. N. p.
FOX II you have reached a point
in life where fairy tales have
"Suuuv no appeal-where you do not
side consider elves and COLLINS as
lin" an essential portion of your
everyday life and you do not
believe that rich young men marry lit
tie shopgirls-then. in all probability,
you will not care for Sunny Side Up"
The picture, in a way, is just as ro-
mantle as some of our Midvictorian
best sellers, but, of course, it has a
modern setting and affords an excel
lent vehicle for the two stars, Janet
Gaynor and Charles Farrell.
The story Is written closely along the
line OF the poor girl ricf1-feller" idea.
In fact, it may have been taken from
the file labeled "Sure-fire Hokum for
Young and Old" Then It was treated
with dialogue, music, some gorgeous
scenes and placed in the hands of the
projecSionist. With all this, it turns
out to be one of the most entertaining
pictures of the present season. just
forget all about the plot--the shopgirl
the rich, idle and handsome young
hero; the charity ball where the wait
performs, her funny companions and
the tenement 'shots."
This reviewer Is informed from a re-
liable source that several OF the New
York scenes of Sunny Side Up" are
the largest ever constructed for a mo-
ton picture; that one East Side set has
a background of the East River and
the Queensborough Bridge and that
NgA ~ a.
Is the picture as whole which forms
a pleasant memory for the patron
Continuity is well maintained. You
will not break rib or two over the
comedy parts and it is impossible to
compare. the singing voices of Little
Janet and Tall Charles with stars of
the Metropolitan. But, as has been
mentioned before, Sunny Side Up" Is
a real picture. The. feminine star
sings one song, I'm Dreamer; Aren't
We AMP" which will probably be taken
up by the Song Club of the Month.
Charles Farrell. who also sings, Is con-
fronted with the problem of being
handsome at all times, and others in
the cast are Sharon Lynn, FL Brendel,
Frank Richardson, Marjorie White and
Peter Gawthorne. Besides I'm q
Dreamer the musical numbers are
Turn on the Heat" IF Had a Talk
and Picking Petals on Of Daisies"
The Fox stage snow is another
Fanchon and Marco idea, the Cali
fornia Capers," featuring Harry and
Frank Seaman, Blake and Jones, the
Ali Ben Hassan Blue Streaks, Alfred
Brewer, Frank Elmer and the Supkist
Beauties. The production strikes top
note In such entertainment and John
Irving Fisher capably masters all the
ceremonies. c. Z. N.
TAT AC-TSs Built around four play
+ ALASE ers who can hold their
"sweet,e" own with the best Of the
screens younger genera
tion "Sweetie.,' Paramount version CT