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SHADOWS BEFORE --

"DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID", "Commanding" "Omcer" in nom

Lionel Barrymore, (Lee).

STARS: Paulette Goddard, Dur?

TORS Meredith,

A once-popular term overwork.

outer than

all tøffed up. In to very superior" uniform.

However, this is alt quite in-

ed by the more Avuncular type cidental to the main cenery in of novelist in describing a female the picture. It is there solely tu Spencer Tracy being of uncertain virtue but undeni-permit able charms whe "a saucy bag-rent down from

the celestiul

nge". It conveys just about the haven (after he reached it by way

Fight degree If bowdlerised of a hero's death) to guide unseen

The you'h is Van John on and anyone who cares to ba branded

naughtiess which Miss Goddard the fumbling footstops of a youth lisplays an the ego of the "The In the air foret. Dairy Of A Chambermaid".

Frothy and pointless as it may be, "The Diary" exhibits a great heretic might dare to suggest deal of merit in the acting and that he nearly steals the picture lirection departments which from Tracy. This is partly due many an epic has lacked. This, to the fact that he is given it part of course, is only as it should be with a good deal of humour in 11 with the original story by Octave and a chance to do ome_very

acting, while

Tracy, Mirbeau, production in the handlatural of Benedict Bogeaus and Burgess though his usual polished self and Meredith and direction by Jean well worth paying to watch, is given a lot of morallsing and flenoir.

lets could be handed out speech, heavily larded with "what

La Goddard is no Bernhardt Philosophising to perform, which but with the capable direction cote a hade tedious once or twice, Lionel Barrymore is unfortunat which she receives in this film she is amirable as the practical-in this respect, too. In the secon minded mall with the complex of his twe brief appearances he bond-selling has to put across a we are fighting for" talk, which 10 iberally

his even

genfus cannot changi of the cast without into anything worthwhile."

the rklculous, bui

Irene Duntia solid-allver pleasing as a

maintains

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where

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MISS

the

A Practical

partner, Mathows (James Olca- lion), to build a railroad from his intres in the Andes to the coast, Johnny wants to bridge a river!

Démonstration but Alexander inslais on a shorter

British

When 29-year-old actor Richard Todd returned to his house In Gertrude Street, Chelsea, Londen, after a tiring day at Welwyn film studios, he discovered that his home had been burgled. And that was more of a surprise to him than it would be to most people because Alchard Todd plays a leading part in the Associated British picture "FOR THEM THAT TRES. PASS"— burglari

While he was filming scene where he leaves Lendont to do a job in Glasgow, the real burglars

quietly word getting away

with some of ble property.

were

Little WAS stolen apart from some cash and personal

thlever Iterns, as the

disturbed bafora evidently they had made a thorough search of the place. Police are now investigating the rob bory while At the studios Richard Todd stands daily in the reconstructed dock at the 'Old Balloy'.

TYCOON" (King's).

Day.

♫

[line Involving a-tunnol.

The tunneled rock pruvęs treu- cherous (yes, the's right, It-col- lapses and burles some of the woritera). About the same time bat the tunnel starts playing up. a few cemental pas long begin in themselves manifest

Between Johnny and the tycoon's beaute- 00 daughter Maura (Laraine Day),

This felrtates old moneybags to some tune which is nothing the supersonic compared with

John Wayne and Lar aine Day in "Tycoon."

sploxy which grips him when he discovers that the two lovebirds have got themselves lost in the Jungle and have had to pend

The story, of course, concern fone can presumably thank pro- Ho the night at an Inca ruin.

Geoffrey Carroll who has uducer Mark Hellinger, who was Insists on immediate marriage." which seems a little drastic, and certain definite method of execut- never lacicing in imagination or the happy couple take up residing that little transition cuton sense of the unexpected.

Mention should be made of Ann' She plays the daughter ence at the tunnel workings (in marily referred to as "off with

or something like that. Being (by his first wife) of Geoffrey view of the housing shortage it the old love, on with the new" Carter, is a wonder they did not set up the marrying type Mr. Carroll Carroll, and is called upon to do house right in the tunnel).

finds it impossibe merely to say a lot of solid performing. She From this point the Areworks

top of it every limo- a cheery fare-three-well to his on start popping in earnest, What last fancy preparatory to moving Warners). with the tunnel collapsing, then into a clinch with the new. being blown up by the peeved

Gome men might have other hero; the equally peeved with par- found a solution to their problems have celing up the remnants of her slightly less perilous, or Illusions and taking them home to curbed their inclinations. But, to

•

"NORTHWEST OUTPOST"

Queen's.

Eddy, STAR8: Nateon Maucy.

jona

daddy; the bridge which the en- be perfectly frank, our Mr. Car2 Lying loosely between the gineer starts to build in place of roll is just a shade tizzly in the brackets of light opera and the tunnel coming to grlet in a temples at times. In brief, he

fairly membera descending

Ferry Communi the hand-wrought

John Wayne, Laraine flood in a wonderful destruction insane. S, when the partnership musical comedy this little bowl for brilliance must (Lo topilot who keeps on popping up STARS:

scene; and the final incredible but being to pall, he hands out polson phantasy is ineptly titled. She 13 Burgess Meredith. He plays that opportune moments.

There is, 1 is true, one scene a real hair-shirt presented with

Any amount of rugged action which everything pans out sweetly with the rations, part of Captain_Mauger,

not unexpected anticlimax In

Barbara Stanwyck is the second in which a bunch of soldiers de- Veteran of the French army with of a part, from the place in the in rugged scenery by rugged and smoothly for all concerned; Mr. Carroll and is most convine part the reene of action for a short an acute attack of chambermaid story

Tracy gets killed,

men makes "Tycoon" a fairly here is never a dull moment.

ing as the completely happy and Time to return slightly tattered fever. His mail cavortings could which is fairly early on.

unsuspecting wife of a man who and bleeding after what the nudl- "THE TWO MRS. CARROLLO" so easily have become third-rate Dunne is his ever-loving fasce sure winner in the box-office

stakes.

to her, la a good husband as wellence is given to believe to have and is required to go through slapstick but they do not.

(Lee). ingredients Add to those

as a famous painter (portrait, not been on offray with the (Injuns. Probably as the result of Jean most of the remainder of

but that is the only happoning Renoir's direction, "The Diary'm in a cloud of soul-destroying powerful, unscrupulous mullionaire STARS: Humphrey Bogart, Bar- house).

bara Stanwyck, Alexl, Smith The curvy Alexis Smith Gobs coincident with the customary authentic grief. That she does not bog who cares not a jot for the safely most

This most recent version of jup and immediately starts to gum expectations on seeing auch a French atmosphere (of the type down completely is much to her of the men who work for him,

and who has a beautiful daughter the stage play of the same up the works. As an actress Misa title.

For the rest it is an uninspired Smith might well be gaited beauti conveyed by the story) of almost eredit.

The ellmax of the story is un-with whom the true-blue, never name by Martin Vale is no pily Wooden. But as a ure- rack-tale of some midly tortuous go- that Hollywood film in

hero falis in love unc doubtedly the weakest point. The say-die Julegory. (Unlled Artists)

fearless aviatrix performs an act wons against the father's wishes, mean effort, without being in minded stren, seductive to a de-ings-on in a Russian outpost in (about the hundredin California' about a coptury ago. of during and valour which, un-and you have quite a supply of the least likely to set the gree

mixture town aburning. thrill-and-romance

the centigrade scale) she is 11 give Ilona Massey many op- "A GUY NAMED JOE" fortunatey, is quite unbelievable the

Our "Bogy," it

portunities to display her beauty turns out, eminently satisfactory. STARB:

to both her (Queen's) Spencer, Thus the film, for the most part pre cribed by al the best doctors

Things begin to sizzle (even satisfactorily, and uliment.

own right when given the when on. Esther Williams.

Incidentally, Esther Williamay As the story does, Frederick chance. He g more to him the cumax reuves une aveng openings to tra-la-la Hollywood has given heaven |

Hard- than his usual part of a tist-like the towel on the exit side together and apart.

and the many forms in its time. The who get her name in ligh's along Alexander (Sir Cedric

ringer. For s

The music for this confection American industrial stinging, fast-shooting hobo with: of a favourite seems to be the result with the rest of the show's stars, wicke) an

once, in brief scene cycoon,

Suspense is by Rudolph Friml and la in his contracts with Johnny a frank approach to the ladies Dany other titonts runs the ending o close Munroe (John Wayne) and his lows him demonstrate.

and surprise throughout the film best light operatie style,

There is else some acting In frolics between a mammoth ca railway station and a palais de secund In being the one

Northwest Oulpost" though of course neither Mr, Eddy nor Mig Mastey can be held responsible (and for that Their abilities possibly even, their inclinations) are o'cly vocal, the frippertes of histrionics being lett, In this in- dance, to Elsa Lanchester.

Tracy, Irone Dunne, Van John-¡consistently good, folla flat on its (Hollywood style) for almost any capable of being quite a bogey m Mis smith is not present) and Nelson Eddy Lì gives adequate

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