Evening star., 1947-02-02
They're All Back Again
Five New Pictures in Week Merely Serve
ALI of Screens Stereotypes
BY Jay cormody


Five new motion pictures opened simultaneously downtown
theaters Thursday That most unusual thing In these days
longer
however something still striking in
the situation.
nigh impossible conceive Of nve pictures more
painfully the character seeoyps which have
Hoywoods obsesons Hardly of these familiar fixtures
walked through long parade OF movies miss
ing in which dropped out of the bag last week
But 1t Was Betty Cradle.
The closest approach an exception this represented
by Betty Cradle all possible people In THE Shocking Miss P
gri Cradle plays typewriter which what typsts were
called back 1874 when the machine was s making us
to polite All that this different sort Of girl might
freshness enven the lives Of moviego
when the typewriter" be Betty Cradle again.
While that Miss CRADLES acting art madequase 70
concealng her reafe identity she is not entirely to blame m @
fact that the picture just another collection o. eeoeype s
the whole collection Beacon street
the fall back when pnched for time or
This strictly amblage includes the spinse aunt o.
energy has devoted her whole zeal TO the cause
suffrage the seuhy son Of the patrcan rt's ,
family midget-nded Office manager Of the Frcna1o on
ping depressing motley Of supposedly Beacon saee
composed mad poet mad painter mad ooarog nou s
and maddest of scholarly feminine Boonian who ahks Inc
English language needs general overhaulng
Regardless of how many audiences have them and
totally unable the cast nfse them with any genuine Ag
LIFE group 1.-THE Shocking Miss Pilgrim the priSe o. e "e
others really the ones
certain kind of sickness has gone Diminishing the monot-
ypeacay stereoypesn one Of tWo oi e 'uSns
offerings. but it really does not work
This is most clearly Te Man Love- in which IDA
Iupno is to be found as r ieaeu s ors she rather more
talented than great many with bigger regulations But tne
role she essays is nothing Ida can 90 ABOUT ~
She merely night club singing tnee
and having wretcned ume 1yils W ''
morbid pianist from his artistic miseries
Naturally the people with Miss Lupino in "Tfe Man
Love- are precisely have with night club
fables ever the first photographed
The ultimate among five pictures the ones to
be found These led by the reformed prisoner
the one who formed prisoners welfare league
which introduced into penal life This is an
tired but he is no more tired
than the faithful dumb girl friend the unregenerae
bandit whose depedaions undo the whole structure
penal reform
BuffOon Is Also Back.
feeble from picture to picture are mea
ehov lot the lot will have be the loyal ou
cluck The impossible crushing burden carried
hv this into the horrible assignment TO De
funny of drained OUT OF n
wears ago. possibly the first picture OF prison LIE ever MAGE
After in, Of course
ovvoods the derives from the sheer mscnahce
that one of the new pictures English production This one
icked a dizzy sequel to such painfully
compositions as Leave Heaven and "The Strange woman
II again beautiful female who Is hendshness
woman whose seemingly will be exhausted 1or
movie makers of effect movie audiences 1he
single new introduced in the case one
that she is so makes out OF even James
And for Secret Heart WELL tney are the oee
last seen Mildred Pierce" ,. =. 49,.
Altogether point they prove is that loyalty oi te
screens Kind can lamenably overworked