Word: angel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indi- vidual to be easily recognizable. A quality of style, indefinable but based on a gentle, knowing honesty, made important his telling of that story-which Janet Gaynor has been unconsciously burlesquing in most of her later pictures and which even Director Borzage, except in Street Angel, had never seriously rivaled till last week. Man's Castle, with its quiet climaxes and Loretta Young's superlatively sensitive acting, is a picture very nearly as good as Seventh Heaven. Take a Chance (Paramount) exhibits more of the appalling difficulties which, in the cinema, surround any attempt to produce...
DESTROYING ANGEL-Norman Kline- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Tangled domestic relations, entwined with murder, bring Detective Jones to Up-the-Hudson society. Loud boorishness relieves him of the case, but a hunch proving correct brings the solution and his recall...
...Angel (Paramount). When the fiancee of a young man whom she is trying successfully to seduce calls at her penthouse, Tira (Mae West) is not amused. "I'll trouble you to scram," she says, gesticulating with her hips. When she has pushed her caller through the door, Tira feels the need of light refreshment. "Beulah, peel me a grape," she tells her maid...
...strut and waggle. Uttered in her slurring, husky voice, Mae West's slogan-"Come up and see me some time" -sounds like the composite catchphrase of all improper stories. Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than lubricious, Vm No Angel, like She Done Him Wrong, is much more amusing than offensive. Good shot: Jack Clayton trying awkwardly to leave when, at their first meeting, Tira indicates that she would like to have him stay...
...also showing at the University today stars Mr. Arliss who is the shoe manufacturer. He takes a vacation and meets the son and daughter of a dead friend who was his rival in business. These children are wasting their fortune on liquor and debauches. Mr. Arliss is an amusing angel who guides the youngsters back to respectability. As usual, he acts in his own inimitable, unchangeable style. "The Working Man" is suitable for the children; so is "Three Little Pigs...