Evening star., 1935-02-02

TAKEN, giving IitI Wiidt 10 Piooo'
Although a great many stories have
been built upon a similar thesis, this
film is so we'll acted and for the most
part so well written, that II 1t has
faults 1t is very easy to overlook them.
Both Josephine Hutchinson and Colin
Give Gas the invalid huSband) turn
in excellent performances and Peggy
Wood and Henrietta Crosman are also
splendid in smaller roles. George
Brent is as usual George Brent-no
more, no less.
Mr.. Give, particularly, is to be COM
rsended for turning in sensitive and
expert bit OF acting. He Is the young
fsh man who marries an attractive
wife and then finds himself a per-
raanent invalid on account Of an air
plane crash. A role that might easily
be overplayed, he plays it with that
care that he has shown in most OF his
stage work, barring that first night
here of Miss Hepburn's ill-fated THE
Lake" And when, at last, not able to
face the future and with the knowl-
edge that his young wife has found
happiness with his brother, he takes
that overdose of sleeping powder, the
director instead of making him die all
over the place has very quietly put him
to sleep.
Each scene is handled with this fine
restraint and with uncommon beauty
of dialogue-so much so that this an
cient. If still honorable story, becomes
singularly moving, and you feel that
perhaps, after all, the whole business
Is quite fresh and original.
The strong cast, the wal-spoken
lines, the smart direction all have
their share. And Miss Peggy Wood,
long an ingenue of impeccable virture
on the stage, turns in bitter, hard
unpleasant Characterization, which
while it is brief is also potent. She
and the oncoming Miss Hutchinson
(vho has learned to close her mouth)
and Colin Give make this seem prob
ably better than it really is.
THE Earle stage show this week
l features Nan Halperin, popular
comedienne, in three brief mono
aramas Zone of which. the one about the
biscuits, she did here most success
fully on her last visit; the Man.
haitian Steppers, a dozen fast-footeo
youngsters, including the Neff Brothers,
the Hale Brothers and Edith White
all of whom walk off with the show
(there's talent In them thar feet")
Russell. Marconi and Jerry in so-so
act and the Five Deguchis, who juggle
each other around like nobody's s
business.
Audrey Sieber appears at one point
in a black-and-wh dress. Um!
TUST why Cary Grant should have
- had to 60 blind to do his first bit
of ace acting is something of ques-
ton. However, with or without eyes
and with Myrna 10y to do most OF
his seeing for him. Grant definitely
becomes an actor In wings in the
Dark"
A picture of clouds, contact" ano
this new Loew's Fox film may be set
down as cheerful entertainment, In
spite of the fact that its hero is
in the dark most of the time, and
its heroine risks her life on some
fool ventures of barnstorm flying.
Since, however, the increasingly
popular Miss 10y is Mr.. Grants in
spiration; since, for the sake Of the
picture, he waits until almost the
final reel to make love to her (she,
having fallen for. him at the first
flick of his eyelash); since there are
some fine flying shots. and you are
properly anxious about Miss Logs trip
from Moscow to New York Cher plane
making the trip with scarcely snorD
this may be set down as an enter
tanning jaunt into the fairly i'm
possible, with Paramount showing you
that in time anybody will be able to
ny a plane with or without eyes.
Miss 10y appears as Lady Indy
who is willing to break her neck for
the sake of the aviator (Cary Grant,
who has lost his eyesight. AS proof
of her devotion, she performs hair
raising feats at hundreds Of county
fairs and when Grants funds are low
she does a few hundred more blood
curdling fips and flops.
His ingratitude for all of this leads
to her long-distance hop-and when
at last her plane sputters feebly over
the Atlantic, who do you think goes
up and rescues her? Three guesses!
Personally, we enjoyed the Aim very
much and were much relieved when
Grant opened his eyes at the very end
and had good look at his f1ancee.
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THE Fox stage show starts well and
ends well, including as 1t does
Gautier's Animated Toy Shop, which