FORM AT A GLANCE

Radio Record, 12 August 1938, Page 30

FORM AT A GLANCE

Review of the Month’s Reviews

"Baroness and the Butler": Annabella and William Powell in a story that tries to run with the hares of satirical farce and hunt with the hounds of romantic melodrama. Shows fair form. "Blockade" ; The first real drama of the Spanish War. Memorable as an indictment of the suffering of non-combatants; less memorable as a spy story involving Madelaine Carroll snd Henry Fonda A Good Bet, "Boy of the Streets": Jackie Cooper in a de-odorised drama of the slums. Take m chance. "Big Broadeast of 1938": W. ©. Fields’s inimitable clowning just prevents this being a dead horse. Seratched. "Dangerous to Know": Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong in a heavily disguised version of Hdgar Wallace’s "On the Spot." ‘Too much psychology and not enough action. Take n chance, "Devil’s Party’: Victor MelLaglan miscast in quite exciting crook melodram’ with a "Dead Ind" opening. Shows fair form. "Divoree of Lady X": Alexander Korda gives us an eyeful of rich colour in a slender, but often very amusing. comedy of polite society. A good bet. "Flight Into Nowhere": Jack Holt goes to rescue an erring aviator from the Last of the Incas. Shows fair form. "Good-bye, Broadway": Alice Brady and Charlies Winninger are worthy of better material than this slender, talkative and erazy comedy of stage folk Take m chance. . "Soy of Living’: Just another machinemade comedy that wastes the talents of Irene Dunne and Donelns Fairbanke, jun. Also ran. "Mademoiselle Docteur": Rambling spy melodrama. Lacks vitality and sense of direction. Also ran. "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round’: Not particularly merry revue, with wide as: :

sortment of artists and very little plot. Seratched! . "Merrily We Live": Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray as the membere of a mui family guaranteed to make you Jaugh. A good pet. "Of Human Hearts’: Simple, moving story of life in a rural community, Lacks "star value,’ but shows outstanding merit on every side. Put your shirt on it. "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted": Songs and villainy in the Canadian woods. Reminiscent, in its unpretentious way, of "Rose Marie." Shows Fair Form. "Romance for Three": Delightful comedy with M.-G.-M’s "second eleven" of stars, so well done it moves up easily into the front Jine of entertainment. A good bet. "Rosalie’: Nelson Eddy sings, Eleanor Powell dances, and Frank Morgan is funny in a stupendous but wearisome musieal romance. Also ran. "Sinners in Paradise": Uses the familiar theme of assorted castaways on a desert island to quite good melodramatic effect. John Boles still trying to be a dramatic actor. Shows fair form. "Stolen Heaven": Olympe Bradna’s impressive starring debut in a. curious melodrama of crooks regenerated with magnificent musical aid. A dark horse. "Test Pilot’: While this film stays in the air it is well-nigh perfect; on the erount the drama is too highly-strung to be consistently convineing.. Spencer Tracy again outstanding. Very exciting if you don't mind being "harrowed." \ good bet. "Shere’s Always a Woman": Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell expertly teamed in a "hin Man" type of story full of bright comedy. & good bet, "Tip Off Girls’: Hollywood exposes. 2 a new racket in an entertaining. melodrama, with plenty of action and some competent acting. Shows fair form. —