Evening star., 1934-11-10


man may climb, it's always the
The play being in this case mostly
the players you have to be again
thankful that Helen Hayes and Brian
Aherne were given the chief roles.
Miss Hayes Maggie Wylie is not
postcard duplicate of the original, but
a moving and personal characteriZa-
ton which achieves success through
its simplicity. Mr.. Aherne's John
Shand is straight from the shoulder.
too-and while perhaps his task is
even harder than Miss Hayes, he
never skips from the path, leaving you
with the impression that he was prob
ably just as good, if not better. than
was Richard Bennett when he first
played opposite Maud Adams In the
same play.
Others in the film contributing to
its general success include Dudley
Digges and the beautiful Madge Evans
(although, come to think of it, Mr..
Digges looks almost as old as his
fatherD And, since you know the
story of this hard-headed, ambitious
young Scotchman who climbs the
political ladder of fame through some
of his own efforts, and most OF his
wife's efforts, too, there is really no
more to say, except that you and you
should 60 and see it-and enjoy it.
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THE able dissonances of Duke FL
lington are featured this week on
the Loew Fox stage-although to our
way of thinking, Mr.. Ellington'S Or
chestra has about as little reason Tor
being there as had that ballet when
a James Cagney film was also tea-
tured at the Earle. In spite OF the
fact that Mr.. Ellington can make
music out of a dishpan, and can set
every person on fire through the music
of his Solitude" and other Harlem
ballads, his brilliant cacaphony is so
out of gear with the film that you
had best go out, walk around the
block, take deep breath, and then
come back prepared for another KIND
of a show to really get kick out OF 1t.
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"CENTLEMEN Are Born" the new
~ Warner Bros. film that proves
that it's pretty much OF waste OF
time to go to college, is nevertheless
SO well acted by spirited cast that
Won are seldom aware that your alma
mater is being trampled under 1oot.
Franchot Tone, Nick Foran, Ross
Alexander, Jean Muir and Margaret
Lindsay sake this, in fact, an enter
tanning show-containlng as II does
bits from almost every young mans
scrapbook.
You are told in this weeks feature
at the Earle that when you come out
of college you must expect the worst.
The real motto is Gn the words OF one
of the characters) "eX-hero-zero"-
which means that even your pigskln
veteran, the man in whose honor you
have shouted yourself hcarse at
Saturday afternoon foot ball game, is
lucky to be able to keep himself in
beans after he has graduated from
his university.
Illustration of this is given by four
youngsters, who get out of college at
the same time and who march on the
world with a bold front and man
sized ambition--only to be rebuffed as
you have heard so-and-so and so-and-
so has been rebuffed during the past
few years. One of the lads gets
bumped off, another gets married on
q shoestring, another goes to sanl-
tarium when his once rich father
Jumps out of the window and the
other fortunately thrives as news
paper hawk and marries the girl he
has always wanted to marry.
In spite of the fact that much OF
this is pretty dreary, it is so well han
died by the cast and the director CAL
fred E. Green) that you are constantly
interested and usually entertained.
Franchot Tone has one of those
scenes which he used to do so well on
the stage and which up until now he
hasn't been allowed to do on the
screen. He's excellent all the way
through-and so are the others.
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RUDDY ROGERS ORCHESTRA
~ this week at the Earle comes as
a welcome and pleasant surprise.