MAYFAIR

Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 2

MAYFAIR

Adventure and romance, drama and comedy are deftly blended in ‘ Whipsaw,’ in which Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy are featured. The picture opened on Saturday at the Mayfair. Seldom has Hollywood given theatregoers a more happily-mated team of stars than Miss Loy and Tracy. The latter has a role in which his delightful brand of egotism and bombast is tempered with an entirely human romance. Miss Loy’s characterisation gives her an opportunity for the whimsical lightness she first displayed so fetchingly in ‘ The Thin Man,’ and which marked her as a vivid new serfeen personality. The plot concerns itself with smuggled jewels, which Miss Loy, as a member of an international ring of _ jewel thieves, is presumed to have in her possession. Tracy is a secret service man, who attempts to trap her through romantic intrigue. He manoeuvres her into a situation in which she must pass as nis wife, and the story moves swiftly through a chain of events which keeps excitement and suspense at fever heat. A second-feature. ‘Hands Across the Table,’ starring Carole Lombard and Fred Mac Murray, completes the programme.