Evening star., 1937-08-23

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taken good look at the picture.
Nobody fell short on the production or
direction and Trans Atlantic Merry
Go-Round' was done on lavish scale,
but it somehow misses fire. II misses
fire for one reason because of its story.
Nancy Carroll Temember?) is
dancer escaping on Jack Bennys
transatlantic shoWboat from the card
shark whose girl friend she used to be.
Comes on the boat Gene Raymond,
who is polite crook out to steal any
diamond tiaras or pearl-studde snuff
boxes he can find lying around loose.
Also there's the woman following the
card shark whose girl friend Nancy
used to be- And there's her husband
out to shoot the man his wife is
following. There's StoWaway. too.
who is an escaped convict and who is
mad at the card shark whose girl
friend Nancy used to be. There's
Nancy's brother, too. held in bondage
to the card shark by forged check
There's police inspector on vacation,
who also probably does not like the
guy whose girl friend Nancy used to
be. There are a lot OF other people
on this boat. but you will have to go
to the purser to find out their names.
Besides you will be busy enough trying
to keep track of the ones we already
have mentioned.
Second slip-up on the part OF the
producers was in their treatment of
Benny. He's permitted TO do a broad
cast sequence using his famed Grind
Hotel" scene, but the rest of the time
it appears as though the boys didn't
realize what comedy talent was there
before them.
The picture does have some good
music, the Boswell Sisters, Mitzi Green
and a few good laughs.
/ VA LYS, young Russian actress in
The Great Gambini,' at the
Metropolitan, is another who thinks
Hollywood is an illogical, not to men,
ton batty place.
Miss Lys came over here some three
years ago to perform in French ver-
sionS OF American films. She was
something like sensational, according
to reports, but when she tried to
break into English speaking roles, she
was told to come back East to learn
to speak without an accent. She put
several legitimate stage successes be-
hind her and returned to Hollywood
speaking an English that was the
envy OF many Of the natives.
So she was given her first part in
an English-speaking picture in THE
Great Gambini" The boys cast her
as Russian psychic medium, who
speaks nothing but Russian all
through the film.
*
This morning representatives OF
educational and civic organiza tions.
critics and motion picture exhibitors
gathered at the Ambassador Theater
for the first session of Warner Bros
preview showing Of their Fall products.
Main idea back of it all is to attempt
to find an answer to the question al
ways on the minds of people who try
to make movies that will attract
shekels to box ofices-"What sort of
pictures does the public want?"
All type OF films, from comedy to
tragedy, are represented on the cross
section OF Warner products to be shown.
but when the answers to the question
aires are in, the boys probably will
find 1t doesn't matter half so much
what the subject is as whether it has
been handled we'll.
The Life of Emile Zola," THAT
Certain Woman Its Love I'm
After" Back in Circulation" and
Varsity Show" are the films to be
shown during the two-day preview.
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