A Nurse, A Crook. And a Cop

Radio Record, 10 June 1938, Page 27

A Nurse, A Crook. And a Cop

Crime Doesn’t Pay ACCORDING to the press-sheet for Universal’s "Nurse from Brooklyn," one of the facts graphically brought out in the picture 1s that the average criminal’s income is only 650 dollars a year. I didn’t notice it when I saw the show, but still it’s nice to know. I think I’ll stick to film reviewing, which is slightly less dangerous, In "Nurse From Brooklyn," Saily Rilers is the nurse, Larry Blake the criminal whom erime doesn’t pay, anil Paul Kelly the cop who cuts off the villain’s income in the last reel. Mr. Kelly is rather an unusual policeman. Ilis romantic salestalk to the heroine includes quotations from a book with a name that sounded to me, the way he pronounced it, like "The Ruby Hat." IL thought for a moment he was all mixed with something written by a Mr. Michael Arlen, and was wondering how a nice girl like Miss Hilers was going to take that sort of wooing. But my mind was set at rest when I heard the actual quotation from "The Ruby Hat," and realised that it was

just old Omar Khayyam being: put te work again. Fast Action NOTHER remarkable aspect ‘of Mr. Kelly’s cop is that, having been shot in the hip and walking with a limp for most of the picture, he manages in the final chase after the crooks to leap down about 20 feet from a roof and run off sound in wind and limb. Such occasional oddities, however, don’t prevent "Nurse From Brooklyn" heing satisfactory action fare. Latry Blake, the erook who shoots the heroine’s brother and then puts the blame on the policeman so that Sally Eilers will have to hate the man she can’t help loving, is the best of the cast. Mr. Blake has apparently been elected as Universal’s villain-in-chief, .. ‘This

is the third picture I have seen in the past few. weeks in which he breaks the law most entertainingly. [Nurse Krom Brooklyn." Universal. Directed by S. Sylvak Simon, Starring Sally Hilers, Paul Kelly. Just released. | Muni Won’t Retire "PAUL MUNI is to retire from the sereen." Following completion of Muni’s "The Life of Emile Zola," his only film in many months, rumour eirculated through th newspapers and magazines of the world that it was quite likely that the artistry of one of the screen’s most illustrious personalities would be seen no more. However, this has been proved groundless by a cabled announcement that Mupi has signed a new long-term contract with his old studio, Warner

ORDEUEEUEEEGRURUERGESAEEECRCEERS ED CUERREDRCT EERE TEER EEREERTER SERED ES ETE Bros. It is one of the most amazing contracts ever drawn up in Hollywood, and it gives him everything that any star has ever dreamed of demanding, Amazing Contract Mears néw deal with Warners gives him the right to insist npon full approval of every detail in every serip: in which he fs to play, it is stated, He is to go on the stage whenever he chooses, provided he is not artnally making a film at the time. He need appear in only nine films during the five years. Each one of them will bring him a minimum salary of £20,000. Over an@ above this minimum salary, Muni will be entitled to numerous "oddments." Of all the things Muni said he would not do when he left Wollywood, onivy one remains undone. So far he has not officially gone back on his resolution not '>o appear in any more biographies. But even that decision js likely to he reversed in the near future, He has two subjects under consideration, "Maximilian and Juarez" (the story of ‘"'aximilinn I of Mexico) and Jack London’s "The Sea Wolf.’.