Evening star., 1935-03-29

tainment, fraught with merrim
at $40" girls, 1t is an averagely
and sombre story-gloomy, impo
Due, no doubt, to the fact that Claude
Rains makes any role interesting, the
picture progresses in its story of
crime with slow, yet stimulating re-
suits. And while it is not Cabinet
of DR.. Caligari," or the best moment
in "Frankenstein," it has at least
sufficient horror to keep any Edgar
Allen Poe addict satisfied.
The Mystery" that surrounds Edwin
brood is. of course, not so dark as it
might have been-Hollywood probably
having decided that certain portions
of the audience Gas Hollywood always
decides) needs "wising up" There
fore, the murderer might as well go
around with murderer" written on
his back. However, even If you know
who has done the terrible deed-as
any child past 4 should-and even
II you only shudder when the remains
of Mr.. brood are discovered in that
unhappy tomb. you have at least ex-
perienced some uncomfortable Sensa-
tions and are glad that Mr.. Rains has
at last decided to end it all by jump
ing off that belfry tower.
Stuart walkers direction of some
of the scenes deserve attention, and
you will want to watch Mr.. Rains
every inch of the way. OF the others,
Douglas Montgomery seemed at his
best when he was an old man;
Heather Angel was continually pretty
and David Manners went along all
right as the unsuspecting trouble
maker.
II you know the story you'll remem-
Der that it's England back in good
Victoria's time; that Claude Rains is
a venerated member of the church,
who does a dual sort of a business
every now and then by running off
and forgetting it all with drugs; that
he has great love for Heather Angel,
who is engaged to David Manners,
who really loves her only as BROTH
er-and that Douglas Montgomery
falls in love with her at Sights &C
cused of murder and helps in the
chase which eventually discovers that
the venerated churchman (Rains)
has done the deed
Thus the plot-well acted, we'll di-
fected, not a masterpiece by any
means, but good enough for a rainy
afternoon or thundercloud humor.
MITzI GREEN grown up! Remem-
Der her if you can back only a
minute or two when she was almost
as popular as Clara Bow. Remember
her as that particular "gamin" who
fixed everything right and occasionally
everything wrong. Remember her as
the good-bad girl of the pre-depres-
sion days, very young, and very clever,
and not in the least good looking
And then ponder on this young lady,
aged 19, who will walk out onto the
Earle stage today and amaze you with
her George Arliss limitations and
others
Every Mitzi Green has to grow up.
And most Mitzi Green's grow up the
wrong way. At 13 most of them go
to school, learn that Gaul is divided
into three parts, and lose all of their
charm.
The lady you will see today has
waxed rather than waned. She is
fighting on rather than giving up.
She Is on the brink of a new career.
We haven't seen her here as yet-but
we have sneaking suspicion that her
days are long and not numbered-and
that having started out as a trouper
she will continue as a trouper-so
long as she shall live. Good for
Mitzi-Mitzi Green.
CHARMING correspondent: Dear
E. de S. M: Who in heck cares
about your New York ramblirgs-
We can read Winchell or o. o. Nc
1ntyre for the big-town stuff-its the
Washington yokels you're paid to en-
lighten(O.
About soma Of the timers you
were wondering-it's your business to
know, not wonder. For your informa-
ton: Won Stroheim has just written
q rip-snorting novel entitled 'Paprika,'
in which he can throw off all the
Will Hays complexes of the movies
and be himself. o.. Won always did
feel restrained ny the limited scope of
the cinema and here he hits the CELL
ing.
This is not an anonymous note
It's just none of your darned business
who I am. had to write you once
before and demonstrate about the fact
that you had Norton Downy''-spell-
ing. please!-":rarried into the Co.'S
tello family instead of the Bennett
clan-that was several years ago. I
had hoped for an improvement.
Being in the same line of business,
90 to speak, and being several years
younger and so very much cleverer
are two of the reasons I don't mind
helping an old guy along"
Thank you very much, sir, for your
generous support.
X X
Mr.. E. v. PHELPS writes in the
morning mail: Judging by the
tickets that received from the Mary
land Theater in Baltimore after nego-
tiating for about three weeks. II half