Evening star., 1933-06-17
MISS LANDI
SCORES ON
FOX SCREEN
Her Part IL, ''ILOUed
You Wednesday"
Is Fine Role.

This ELISA Landi is coming along
| films than any other actress In Holly
wood, and each appearance seems tt
find her just a trif1e more assured, 9
bit lovelier, shade more capable. II
she Is not spoiled by poor vehicles, as
50 many potentially great performers
have been in the past, it Is fairly safe
! to predict that she will be numbered
among the cinema's outstanding ac-
tresses before the passing Of another
| year.
She will; that is, if she does not de-
| eide to abandon the screen for some
one Of the several other things at which
she is reputed to be particularly good
Dancing, for instance, or writing, or the
stage. That Is the amazing thing about
Miss Landi-she does so many things
extremely well, including merely being
pleasant to gaze upon. At least, that
is the very decided impression one gets
from her latest film, II Loved You
Wednesday," which began weeks en-
gagement at Loew's Fox yesterday.
This time Miss Landi, who has had
nearly every kind of role imaginable
during the course Of her brief cine
matte career, plays the part OF some
what temperamental dancer. In the
beginning, while still student in Paris,
she is in love with a philandering hus-
band, portrayed, for some strange rea-
son, by Arthur Jory. Then, after Jory
tires Of her and returns to his wife.
she goes to South America and meets
Philip Fletcher (Warner Baxter), a
hard-working engineer, who becomes
enamored Of her just about as quickly
as Jory had abandoned her.
The picture proceeds, in a rather
jerky fashion, to the climax, in which
Miss Landi has great difficulty choosing
between Baxter and Jory, who, having
got away from his wife once more.
shows up Unexpectedly. From this
point on the Aim moves along very
swiftly, with one development following
another In such rapid succession that
there Is never a moment when the out
come Is certain.
All in all, II Loved You Wednesday"
provides fairly good evenings enter
tainment, although 1t Is far from being
a great picture. Aside from the fact
that the plot is rather devoid of any,
thing resembling originality, the films
principal drawback is its jerkiness. It
probably would be pretty bad in fact, If
it were not for the performances of
DdAltI dllO VNLoo 4SdllQl, UOtll VI WlliSIl
are first rate. AS it is, however, these
two players do so well that one comes
away with the feeling that II Loved
You Wednesday" is pretty good, after ALL
Headlining the stage show is the
Notre Dame University Glee Club,
which, under the direction of Prof.
Joseph j. Casasanta, presents a roper
toire Of songs, mostly those sung on
the campus Of the famous Indiana foot
ball center. This is their second stage
appearance, the Capitol Theater in New
York having been the scene of the first.
The boys best offering-perhaps be-
cause it really comes from the heart
is "Notre Dame. Our Mother" rendered
as a tribute to Knute Rockne, the uni
versity's famous foot ball coach
Then there is Bert Gordon, who pre-
sents a fairly entertaining assortment
of bits and pieces" as he calls them,
followed by Sibyl Bowan In impress
sions that are different" Daro and
Acosta open the vaudeville bill with
an unusually good Russian dance act
following an overture that Is fully up to
the standard Of Phil Lampkin's orches-
ira. A mirth-provoking Mack Sennett
comedy and news reel complete the
program, which, on the whole, is a
better-than-average one. p. H. l.