Evening star., 1932-06-18

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beauty which is TaIIu,ab H.rLbe,d
very great at
one minute and. then not at all at
other is seen as a long-faced heroine
who loves her husbands best friend
better than she does her husband.
This state of affairs is brought about
by humorum existence in the
tropics, where flies are flies and
men aren't men very long, and by
the fact that, when her husband
goes blind, her married life is not
the wild success it used to be-
Finally. at the bitter end (and it
Is bitter endD, Miss Bankhead
drops herself neatly onto some Cali
fornia rocks, and as a flock of birds
screams out its funereal swan song
to her, you know that she is lying
there reduced to pulp, and that.
her husband and best friend ara
crying miserably-but not as miser-
ably as they might have cried If
husband had found out that his wife
had been untrue to him-on each
others shoulders. One of the most
Ibsenesque climaXes of the year. this
is not likely to send you home with
particular WhoopS of joy.
IT. however, you like to see Miss
Bankhead as continually haraSSed
heroine, this may appeal to you-
If you go on a cloudy day and are
looking for gloom. Be prepared to
see Paul Lukas as the friend and
lover, Charles Bickford as the blind
husband, and Miss Bankhead badly
made up in a few scenes. Eugene
Palette once or twice lifts the veil
of sorrow by some rather amusing
monkey talk E. de S. MELCHER.
Two Features
At R-K-O Keith'S.
GCTRANGERS OF THE EVE
~ MING" taken from popular TIf-
fany Thayer's book, The Illustrious
Corpse" is not one of the major
Summers films. 1t is, to be honest,
one of the least. A hodge-podge
story of misplaced oorpseS in an
undertaker's establishment, it Is
only to be looked kindly upon when
Zasu Pitts is saying "Oh, my" or
when Lucien Littlefeld is trying to
figure out where is he IS. Even then
it isn't very funny. Furthermore.
the sequences have been so badly
directed that if you know which
corpse is which, and why, bv the end
of the film, you will be doing we'll
very well.
The actors, too. have entered into
their business only very lightly. In
one notable instance you will find
the villain cueing Mr.. Palette, who
unfortunately has dropped a line.
From then on things progress ac-
cordingly. There are two Or three
murders. a heroine who does Moth
ing a hero who fights. and Miss
Pitts and Mr.. Litt,efield. who try
their best to put life into it. But
it's tough job. Apart from one or
two to'erable moments, the film goes
on and on and on and lands where
you suspected it was going to land
which is nowhere.
The real reason for going to Keith's
this week. however. is to see some
stirring pictures of the fatal Everest
expedition. Called The Tragedy
of Everest" this tells the story of
those men who climbed higher on
this Tibetian peak than any one be-
fore ther-but who, unfortunately,
never came back to tell their tale.
AS the camera has caught the vari-
GUS snow scenes, the peak of the
mountain itself. and clouds and
mistS sWirling around its higher re-
gionS, it is beautifully recorded
camera story and no mountain
scenes have ever been revealed to
more advantage You will want to
see this without fail. E. de S. M.
"Sky Devils" Shown
ut the Metropolitan.
YOU can't go wrong into the Met
ropolitan this week. Sky Devils"
VIII supply you with several thor
ough-going thrills, no end of spon-
taneouS chuckles there are a few
new gags mingled with the old and
an hour or so of solid entertainment.
Spencer Tracy, Ann Dvorak. Will
liam (Stage) Boyd and George
Cooper, directed by Edward Suther-
land, in a United Artists war COM
edy produced by Howard Hughes, are
more than amusing in their por-
trayal of an old theme.
The Flagg and Quirt motif is only
slightly altered. These wartime
buddy-rivals, although they get in
two-flsted brawls over the same
girl, share perilous sky adventures,
and dodge the M. P's, lack the
Flagg and Quirk devotion to the
traditions of the service.
They quit the war and are on
their way to Switzerland in an
army bomber when some one acci-
dentally releases a bomb, destroying
a German ammunition dump in a
most spectacular manner.
Film shots of the ensuing destruc-
tion are remarkably vivid, and al
most as thrilling as the finale-an-
other bomb accidentally released on
the home field hangar, where the
comrades of the flyers are drawn up
in formation, with band, to well
come the returning heroes.
The best shot is closeup of one
of the principals, grinly crawling
across dark expanse in the face of
bombardment. When the whole
scene is revealed, however. the hero
is demonstrating his valor on the
floor of a French tavern, and the
cannonade is great popping of
champagne corks. w. H. S.
Joan Bennett in
"Week Ends Only" at Fox.
ONE of the newer, more success
~ full cinema dove-teams is the
Joan Bennett-Ben Lyon combina-
tion. Reasons for its success are
the smooth, porcelain like beauty of
Miss Bennett, the genial and semi
whimsical manners of Mr. Lyon, and
the way in which they can look at
each other al ID seem not to be act
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