MIRTHFUL MADNESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 51, 2 March 1939, Page 5

MIRTHFUL MADNESS

“LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE” a Bigger, madder, merrier and wilder than in “Sing. Baby, Sing,” "On the Avenue” and “You Can’t Have Everything,” those three comedy-mad Ritz Brothers are starred for the first time in “Life Begins in College,” Twentieth Century-Fox musical hit featuring Joan Davis, Tony Martin and Gloria Stuart and a noteworthy cast, which opens at the Regent on Saturday with “The Lady in the Morgue.” A hilarious tuneswept jamboree, “Life Begins in College” contains all the essential elements for a gay, entertaining hit—giddy gags, gorgeous girls and frenzied fun. The glo-roarious cast also includes Fred Stone. Nat Pendleton, Ed Thorgersen, Dick Baldwin. Joan Marsh, Dixie Dunbar, Jed Prouty. Maurice Cass, Marjorie Weaver and J. C. Nugent. The screen play written by Karl Tunberg and Don Ettlinger from stories by Darrell Ware, moves with zest and speed from one riotous situation to another, with the three Ritz circus unloading the niftiest comedy gags of their careers. With them is Joan Davis, pretty red-headed comedienne, who attains new heights of hilarity as a Jove-struck girl on a heart-hunt for an Indian, of all things. FORMER STARS PLAYINC MINOR PARTS ECHOES OF THE PAST Spotting one-time stars now working in obscurity in Hollywood is a melancholy pastime. An American journalist has found around the studios about 30 names which would once have been in lights. In Warner's “Juarez,” Frank Mayo, Stuart Holmes, Paul Panzer, Holmes

Herbert, Fred Malatesta and Francis MacDonald have some of the lesser of the “50 speaking parts.” At. the same studio, Monte Blue, once a big attraction, has a few lines in “Dodge City.” Paramount provides almost a veterans’ club. Ethel Clayton and Mary McLaren appear in “Midnight,” Betty Compson is featured in “Hotel Imperial.” Bryant Washburn and Don Alvarado are in “Cafe Society” and “Union Pacific,” besides Julio Faye, has room for Agnes Ayres, Valentino's leading lady in “The Sheik.” Antonia Moreno, Polly Moran, and Raymond Hatton have just finished supporting Gladys Swarthout. in “Ambush.” Clara Kimball Young, Ruth Clifford, Pauline Garon occasionally get a call from 20th. Century-Fox, and Gertrude Astor and Jean Acker from Universal. Th? first three pictures on the schedule of Fairbanks International, the new company formed by Douglas Fairbanks, sen., Montagu Marks and Sir Adrian Baillie, are “The Californian.” “The Tenth Woman” (based on an episode in the life of Byron), and “The Three Musketeers.”