The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-14
LATEST MOVIE REVIEWS, RIGHT
 FROM R. COONS
Wellknown Writer Gives His Impressions of
 wProdutcions
By ROBIN COONS

The movie history lesson now is Gold Is Where You Find It"
 Beautifully photographed in col or this outdoor melodrama covers the fight between hydraulic miners and wheat farmers in the Cali fornia of 1877. It has vigor and abundant action, hard-hitting hero of the old school in George Brent, a dyed-in-th wool villain in Barton MacLane, a fine gentle man who loves his land in Claude Rains, and the interruptions lords of big business arrayed against the simple, earth-loyal farmers of the valley
 Most of all it has Olivia de Hav- illand, whose fresh beauty in the color medium will startle you. It has, for climax, a smashing flood brought down by our hero for no apparent reason other than to provide a smashing climax. Mi chael Curtiz directed.
 Pair of Musicals
 The week, however, was largely musical. Everybody Sing" presents the goofy doings of a balmy the atrical family in which Daddy Reginald Owen is a playwright, Mama Billie Burke a stage star, Allan Jones and Fanny Brice the servants, and Lynne Carver and Judy Garland the children. Regi- nald Gardner is the ham actor, Miss Burke's leading man.
 Directed by Edwin L. Marin, the piece keeps pace with it's possi- bilties for humor and song, pro- jects 14-year-old Judy more prom inently than before, and gives the Brice humor full opportunity. Less pretentious, less beautifully staged than "Rosalie," it's much better entertainment.
 In Happy Landing" Sonia Henie in her little Norwegian village falls in love with Cesar Romero, dance band Lothario, and doesn't realize the true worth of Romero's man. ager, Don Ameche, until she has followed them to America.
 From this lean plot germ is grown pleasant Towering of TO- mantle and comic incident, exciting specialties, and beautiful skating ensembles enough to please the most exacting filmusical-or Henie fan. The net result is, I think, the best of the three Sonia films to date, if you discount the novelty appeal of One in a Million"
 Cesar Romero caricatures a Great Lover amusingly, and Ethel Mer- man is the ''hot and happy" gold digger. Wally Vernon does, among other things, a strip tease" to entertain impatient reporters about to walk out on his publicity hungry boss. The Condos brothers, tappers extraordinary, do a War Dance for Wooden Indians to the sultry scintilating music of Raymon Scott's Quintette. Fl Brendel is back, with a Swedish specially, and Jean Hersholt. And Don Ameche, as the Real Thing, proves again that he is the screens most nat ural romantic leading man. Roy del Ruth directed.
 Alpine FrivOIity
 Paradise for Three" is one of those surprise" pictures. Robert Y ou ng, perennial contest winner but unemployed, wins a soap slo- gan award, vacation at an Alpine hotel. Frank Morgan, soap mag nate, wins second prize, incognito, goes to the same resort. There Mary Astor; Morgan's | valet, Reginald Owen; Morgan's housekeeper, Edna May Oliver; his laughter, Florence Rice; and sum- dry others become involved in | senseless doings-to no good end | put light amusement. Eddie Buz- zell directed.
 Those old de Grissac emeralds | are with us again in "Arsene Lupin Returns. Melvyn Douglas, Vir- sinia Bruce, Warren William, John make the French burglars return auspices, with George F'itz- directing. It's a good piece of what Variety calls the who iuuit' school