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SHADOWS BEFORE
This has been used before with, form with its own ideas on how sincere and moving effect In a man's life should have been this instance it is merely vaguely lved). unpleasant,
Edgar Allan Poe was born in
WHE
nt
his
"POBSESSED" (Lee).
ful of his inability to respond to
As the action is taking place in UTARS! Jonis Crawford, Van Louise's over enthusiastle over- Australia the players are supposed Boston, Massachusetts, on Jan- It uary 10, 1809, and was orphaned Heflin, Raymond Massey. tures, and of his inability not to to have Australian accents, in these days, when anyone be repelled by these.
must be admitted that in this in his third year, whereupon he is at liberty to consult a psy- There have been few, if any, Charles Laughton is fairly con- was adopted by John Allan, a
of Raymond Masiey's perform-sistent and convincing (though wealthy and childless merchant.
His early schooling chiatrist, and when anyone whoances in the past which have been even Australiana would rather can read
England. may lightheartedly anything but doe thumb through the
and polished. hear his normal, delightful tones, Stoke Newington,, in pages of His playing of Dean Graham, one would think). For the rest Later his patron removed him freud, Jung or Adler, there is a
first Louise's employer, then her of the cast it seems to have been from the University of Virginlu tendency for the general publle husband, brings no break in the considered sufficient that they because of his dissipation and to ale its half-baked knowledge continuity of his success,
Interpulate a periodical "Wacko gambling debts. A period in the
ended with In the adverse criticism ot If bouquels are to be hunded and "Cobber" to establish their counting-room
absconding to Boston.
In 1827 he published "Tamer- films which attempt to portray to the cast justice demands that nationality. the workings of
The boy-wonder of the boxing the invisible performers should А deranged
receive their share of the praise. ring, Nipper (Richard Carlson) is one and other Peoms" and en- mind. In some cases, whether Jerry Waid and Curtis Bernhardt, particularly grim in this respect. listed in the army where he rou the basis of the criticism be producer and director re pective-
one sentence he is straight to the rank of Sergeant Major in
1820, half-baked or not, the criticismy, have given us a smooth-run-American, in the next more ex- West Point admitted him in is justified.
ning. logically-developing drama, sruciatingly Australian than the This, however, is not the case its subtitles delicately brushed midinkumest Attasie to be found on 130 but dismissed him
for deliberate with "Possessed". Misa Craw-and its highlighis pointed with the Bydney waterfront. ford's performance as the psycho-out having searchlights played on Binnie Barnes is present through. neglect of duty.
of the nction pathic Louise Howell is so honest them. and curries do much conviction More than average imagination the romantle Interest for Laugh-
25 well "Poems", us to excite not only horror but shown in the photography of ton (and as his co-stooge in the Publishing a third edition of his as "Israel" pity in the minds of the most Joseph Valentine, (Paramount)
As she is not and "To Helen", working for the "comedy scenes).
next to be an Australian she is 15aturday | mildly sensitive spectators. Her
Visitor' and tho gradual development of the part "THE MAN FROM DOWN UN-allowed to all the ears of the Southern Literary "Messenger, he is mmslerly.
suffering patron with
married his cousin Virginia With the distraction of a con- BTARS: Charles Laughton, Binnie Cockney shrill instead.
Clemni. As the girl who is not the boy's suming devotion received with Barnes.
He was irregular, eccentric and npathy by her former
sister after all (surprise, surprise) Not the first of its kind, this Donna Reed is about the only briety and lover as
querulous. Long periods of 30- Reed the
of destruction, the bumbling piece of mediocrity
patient though - in the cast who acts nail speaks requited labour would be inter- woman's mind is scen to sway proves that a briliant uctor enn be
normal human being. The immediate effect of seeing duigence and months of desperate spersed with fits of reckless in- this business-venture-in-celluloid |
poverty. the feeling that the man was
DER." (QUEEN'S)
out
lot
FIN
a blatunt
months later
elight
After winning a $100 prize with
"POSSESSED”
Raymond Massey greets Van Heflin qadir the angry glare of Joan Crawford In the paychological drama "PosscRaed" in which Miss Crawford gives a magnificent performance as tho
paychopathie Loulie Howell.
"A MS. Found In A Bottle" "THE VIGILANTES RETURN" NEW FASHION
J
(King's). STARS: Jon
Lindsay, Andy Devine.
Hall, Margaret
occasionally
IN PASSION
By Patricia Clary
Though hardly to be compared with the great dramatic stories which Hollywood
Beatrice Joy was a big star produces, the true, full-blooded during the days, when Rudolph Western still has that something Valentino, Rod La Rocaue, and which loving public
keeps tho adventure Thomas Meighan were the
knocking on the iduls of the flapper set box-office window.
But now, she said. fashions in "The Vigilantes Return" should passion have changed. Bobby- be no exception.
of the soxers currently go for the non- A second prize of $100 was pleture, U.S. Marshall from chalant
Mitchum, type, Robert "The Texas (Jon Hall) is called upon and the next-door type, Van Gold Bug". The next
of road Jobrison. year he to rout a ruthless band went to New York and won Im- agents while trying to sidestep affectionato medinte farme with the publica- his own rout by un tion of "The Raven" In The dancehall belle (Margaret Lind- Evening Mirror
soy).
Hero
the
The hot love-making of the silent movies would seem pret. ty old-fashioned today," Miss love Joy Bald. "Styles In change so much as they do in clothes."
come
and crumble. First there are made to look a ham and a foot by slight Indications- momentary!n poor scripl and wenk-knee inuses of control-tollerings only. direction. It is to be hoped that the Then appears her complete lack producers received adequate re-not nearly far enough down un-won by him in 1843 with of judgement and reasoning in ward for churning out a morli- der. He emerged, (M. G. M.) her personal affaire convictions tying spectacle and selling it to of persecution creeping in-the the cash customers carefully fissures of derangement widening.
re wrapped in the gilt-edged reputa-THE LOVES OF EDGAR AL. From there hock tion of Laughton's name.
LAN POE" (King's). follows shock as the straight Painful to recall, the story STARS: Linda Darnell, John
but narrow) path of reason is concerns the activities of an
Sheppard,
His wife died in the deepest For the purposes of tracking ft In Favour of the increasingly Australian braggart, Jocko WI-
poverty in 1847. Foe litmself at down the leader of the outlaw As this film has not compelling tangents leading by on (Charles Laughton), who be-previewed in Hong Kong
been tempted suicide in 1848 and had gong, the marshall see an alias tortuous routes to the abyss.
noon attack of delirium tremena in and ostensibly falls in
The actress, making a haves as possibly the most obnoxi-estimate of its worth cun
with the back after years of retirement In Though the bulk of the work ous Australian might, Returning
be the following year. After
lly in re- desperadoes. The falls naturally on Mias Craw from the
first World War.
here. However, essayed Be
for covery he lectured for two month ointment turns out to be Louise Columbia's "Air Hostess." was ford's shoulders she receives no takes to Australia with him the record, It may be interest in Richmond and Norfolk, and be-
(Paula Drew) who is beautiful one of Cecil B. DeMille's bright- littic support from the other little Belgian boy and his supposed ing to glance
allent hits like at brief, come engaged to a lady of means. but not dumb, and who turns his est stars in
1 principals.
Having gone North to wind up
Commandments," He turns the boy into a authoritative biography of the
true identity in to the gang. As the apathetic lover (apathe-pugilist of almost Superman class man whose amatory excursions Baltimore on October 7, 1849.
his affotrs he died wretchedly in Framed for murder and threat- "Manslaughter" and "Saturday tic. In the case of Louise only) and sends the girl to a school Hollywood apparently
ened with lynching, Hall escapes Night," Van Hetlin is excellent. As Davill for jeunes lles suckled on Bliz-ders of greater attraction than by choice on the horrible, Poe's Devine) and the beaufeous Miss for Mr. De Mille," she recalled, consi. Weird, wild, fantastic, dwelling with the ald of his pal (Andy "In the society dramas I did Sutton he is simply a normal Caritou milk. All this on the man who, after a brief infalua- proceeds of on uninspiring little his literary genius. It is prob- genius was yet great and genuine. Lindsay.
"I wore creations that were the tlon, is no longer stirred emotion-pub.
able, that after reading the Humour he had none and some Their efforts to enlist the aid last word in chic. But those fea pily by the tempestuously adoring For the not part the script-following you will be complete- of his takes were poor stuff. The of the Vigilantes and the mob's thers, Jewels and brocades would Louise, Though brought almost dialogte and action-is pure Boys' ly confused by film
is chief charm of his poems counter-attack to spolt this plan be considered over-dressing to- to a psychopathic condition him- Own
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the movie clinches that titillated POP a basically covers himself in love with the pleasant person, sincerely regret girl he supposes to be his sister.
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