Evening star., 1935-09-21

Pictures Corp. neither cavorts on the
greensWard nor makes friends with
yagrant newspaper reporters. Instead,
she devoteS the early part of this tale
to impressing her boss with her amaz-
ing efficiency as secretary, and the
secord half to trying to convince him
that she is more interesting as a
woman than as an automaton who
knows more than he does about the
Office filing systems.
AS social comedy "She Married Her
Boss" is bland and brazen in its ap-
proach to the career of a young girl
who wanted to marry her rich en-
ployer and used every known vile to
get him. For her part of the bargain
she did offer, however, to convert his
home from a differing madhouse into
an orderly and pleasant domicile. She
also would have liked some high mat
rimonial romance if her husband
hadn't been more enchanted with the
reports from his Philadelphia branch
office
1t is not these matters nor the vir-
tOCo hllO 0ClIIC1 VI L1lC 1llIll do q
problem play which make "She Mar
ried Her Boss" worthy OF your atten-
ton The best moments in it are pure
farce AS a handsome giggle pro-
yoker Miss Colbert has few peers
when given the right material. She
gets it on several occasions in this
cinema. When, for example, she
launches on spree with some de-
partment store window dummies and
a playboy admirer, she is tops. Mel
Vyn Douglas, cast as the solemn and
work-nutty husband, also gets in his
comedy licks in a last-minute Sc
ouence. After learning that even his
butler thinks him stuffy, he decides to
loosen up and go on a spree with that
droll smanuensis. The consequences
bring both the story and the audience
TO a happy-yea, hilarious-ending.
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THE surprise punch in the picture
is supplied by youngster named
Edith Fellows. This grade-school
Bernhardt kicks up a terrific fuss as
spoiled brat in the first half of the
reel, and then expertly reverses her
field to become the chief object of
sympathy ere the curtain has fallen.
1t is a nice bit of work. so smoothly
done that even Michael Bartlett is
put at ease in his scenes with the
child. Mr. Bartlett, whose voice made
Miss Grace Moore look to her laurelS
Ga Ilor ra
on the screen, but he dses have a
chance to sing a bit. That bit is
excellent.
MOST people either break into a
N lather of joy over tangoes,
rhumbas, cariocas and their musical
cousins, or regard them as very cold
potatoes indeed The former class
will be positively in heaven during
Xavier Cugat's stage program at the
Earle this week. The latter probably
will be less embittered about the
whole tango situation than ever before
Mr.. Cugat's orchestra and his en-
tertainers are superb. His rhythms
are so provocative that even the stage
hands had warm, eLtin looks in their
eyes at the first show yesterday, and
behind the scenes the dance teams
could be seen tangoing for the sheer
pleasure Of dancing to such music.
When the dancers came on stage,
the audience shared their delight.
Georges and Jalna, one of the smooth
est and most exciting combinations
these old eyes have seen in many
a year, stopped the show dead in its
tracks yesterday. No doubt they will
do precisely the same thing tomorrow
and tomorrow. The efferveScent
Reyes, Raul and Eve, likewise scored
a hit with their rhumba turn, Climax
ing and closing the act. Probably the
most popular night club entertainers
around Washington in recent years,
they still produce the same brand of
frenetic, mcorrigible and infinitely. ap-
pealing terpsichore that first won them
fame here. The third high spot of