Four Leading Ladies In Unusual Film

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 22, 27 January 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Four Leading Ladies In Unusual Film

“LADIES IN LOVE" HAS DISTINGUISHED CAST (State: Screening Saturday). “Men? Never let them know you love them—keep laughing at them and they can’t hurt you! While it But no tears when it’s ended!" That’s what four lonesome, lovely ladies say in “Ladies in Love." But what they do makes the new Twentieth Century-Eox picture one of the screen’s most fascinating entertainments.

With the most brilliant and exciting combination, of feminine personalities ever to appear in one picture —Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett and Simone Simon —supported by Don Ameche, Paul Lukas, Tyronne Power, Jr., and Alan Mowbray, “Ladies in Love," tells a brilliantly unusual story, with each of the four feminine players thrilling you in her own way. Janet, who, incredibly, feeds rabbits for a living; Loretta, a chorus girl in a musical show, and Constance, a mannequin who wants a millionaire, pool their resources and take a small apartment.

Excitedly happy in their new home, the girls eagerly plan for the romances they intend to have, and dream of the men they love. Janet adores Don Ameche, a young doctor who occasionally employs her. Loretta has fallen m love with a wealthy young man, who, however, is already engaged. Constance is enjoying a gay round of pleasure and excitement with Paul Lukas, a mining engineer on vacation from fcjoutn America. When an opportunity for a better job presents itself, Janet leaves her doctor and takes a job us valet to Alan Mowbray, a famous magician. These four girls, all “ladies in love," so Startlingly different, so brilliantly exciting, move through a story as fascinating and entrancing as their own personalities. Janet, who wants to get married because she's heard so much about it; Loretta, who wants all men to leave her alone except the one who does, Constance, who longs for love and gets a millionaire, and fcjimono who knows the best way to get a man is to ask him, excitingly present, a bitter-sweet romance of the adventures and disillusions of four little maids in search of love.

Don Ameche is excellent as the young doctor, while Paul Lukas contributes one of his most noteworthy performances as the South .American who must choose between Constance and Simone. Alan Mowbray contributes a stellar performance, tinged with laugher.