Smyrna times., 1933-10-25
MONIES
Attractions at Strand Theatre


Today and Thursday = If yor
have ever had family troubles YOU
will want to see Another Lang
uage," with Helen Hayes and Rob.
ert Montgomery co-starred. AnC
if you've been fortunate enough to
avoid family trouble, you'll still
want to see this fine picture, for ii
offers excellent screen entertain
ment. The picture, based on the
famous play by Rose Franken, is
truly an epic Of the American
middle class family and mothers
in-law in particular. 1t has a
moral you will like or dislike, but
it is there just the same. !. that
mothers who love their children
can prove it by keeping out Of
their affairs after they are mar
ried. Miss Hayes, as the young
wife who finds herself smothered
by her husbands family, gives the
most moving performance of her
nunciation Of the Italians, one and
all, is an outstanding scene. Mont
gomery, as the Intellectual hus-
band who finds his backbone in
the right place when he springs to
his wife's defense, is excellent. His
portrayal of the part Of Vickie
will be remembered when some of
his more fippant roles have long
since been forgotten. Louise Clos
ser Hale is the selfish mother.
Friday and Saturday Marie
Dressler and Wallace Berry in
''Tugboat Annie" their first APP
pearance since Min and Bill, ="
sometime hilariously funny, some
times tensely dramatic, but all
ways entertaining. The public has
long clamored for another Dress
ler-Beery picture. and in the pres
ent story Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
has provided an ideal one There
are hilarious quarrels between the
redoubtable feminine tugboat cap
tain and her shiftless, good-natur-
ed husband; mother-love furnishes
poignant heart interest. Dress
Ter plays Annie, with Berry as her
husband, Terry, and Robert Young
as Alec, the son, who grows up,
becomes captain of liner, mar
ries the daughter of the shipping
magnate and seeks to remove his
parents from the tug which is
their livelihood and home.
Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday,
Gold Diggers of 1885," Warner
Brothers dramatic musical screen
special and the most lavishly pro
duced motion picture of the de
cade. Gold Diggers Of 1893" has
been acclaimed by critics and by
first audiences as the most spec
tacular and vital entertainment
ever originated in Hollywood.
Eight players of stellar rank,
headed by Warren William, Joan
Blondell and Ruby Keller, take
important parts in this production.
Others include Dick Powell, Aline
MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Ginger
Rogers and Ned Sparks. A new
Bus by Berkeley chorus of 200
beautiful girls, achieve startling
Importance in the present picture
in the most gorgeously staged en-
sembles ever conceived for STAGE
or screen entertainment. Gold
Diggers of 1888" is a spectacular
story of stage life, OF producers,
of show girls who had to turn to
gold digging during the depres-
sion. In addition to the many
stars and five great song hits, it
is replete with side splitting COM
edy, with brilliant dramatic action
and with the most elaborate and
impressive dance ensembles ever
screened. Dances and ensembles
are said to be the most lavish and
ornate ever produced in a talking
picture. Two hundred girls in
silken hellical skirts dance on a
hellical stairway in the exquisite
Shadow Waltz" number. During
the dance, the girls play upon ILL
animated violins, winding around
the giant stairway, whirling about
a glistening pool and an equally
glstening floor. 1t is a triumph
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