Evening star., 1949-08-14
Movies Can't Lose
AT Roulette able
Gambling Cycle Big Winner
Yet Poses a Moral Problem
By Joy Cormody

The gambling fever is epidemic in Hollywood
that should disturb serenity the police depart
ment has managed to achieve
The industry gaming table
dice bet roulette play cards simply to provide the
public with a exciting screen theme
Hollywood brings system into the game ana so
far has not been able to lose
Clark Gable Gregory equivalent cosic charm
pable victim of the gambling urge In the hands OF these
places million counterfeit dollars or STACK OF
virginia. looking chips and packs them OH to the nearest
casino.
It's All Fine fol Box Office.
cemen engossng anything they have achieved
suits In the word of the trade this hypoes the nox once
there anything the box office needs it is hypo-ing
pictures which have had this effect are ANY
Number Can Play Candles THE Great Sinner and
the comedy angle Soowtul Jones' 1hey nave put
such sheen of JOY the faces OF their producing suoos tna
they cannot establish fashion. Even Monogram and
Republic specializing westerns might be tempted to
to get stake in the more exciting
game .
Having addctedt gambling and finding it so profit
able industry nevertheless left in something of moral
This evident in screenpay dealing with the
subject usually point which becomes necessary to
judgment on gambling as good or evil thing
universally accepted for long time IN human
society gambling vice. Experience has underscored that
verdict heavily for to dispute It, So oywooo goes
along although of reluctance These the
gambler having winning streak and whale OF
The fact is that deal rightly by the
established moral code sometimes the really dramatic high
lights of such screenplays
Surely this rather heroic scale in THE Great
The gaming tables Webaden
in this and loosely regarded the best
people the
apparently started choosing good over
evil at age The girl he falls in love with is
but and full OF the Joy OF
retired general pobab OF the old Car
and grandmother provincial More than that
this great lady Ethel Barrymore The single unat
tractive being apparently the who
the paWnshop
After his complete degeneration the Casino, the hero
achieves regeneration cathedral less The picture makes
learned lesson and have the others 1t
also feeling that they all had the time Of their lives and
nothing again will be as exciting
AS gambling lady picture Miss Sanwyck explores
degradation limits She ends in the psycharc
ward of jail hospital beaten by hoodum In
terrible thing to happen to kind OF
gay CANDLES does not attribute
the gambling fever.
A Childhood Quirk.
point that Miss Stanwyck forced herself
upon the Casino not to get rich
quick subconscous echoes Of unhappy child
until she really hit the moral skds she was
meeting ubane soothspoken expensey tailored Casino
might have met only OF the better clubs
time she could have picked her winnings and gone
did not hardly the fault OF the patrcan
Stephen McNaly who owned the casino
Cables gambling venture have taken him into sphere
generally vicious but the picture shows few signs OF
samy luxurious and genteel you
most of them clearly register That the hero
destined to be lot quieter from then on
day. of course, Hoywoods attitude will harden on
gambling, but right it is playing winning system.
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