Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Playgoer's film acquaintance with Miss Harding dates from the brave days of "Holiday" and "Paris Bound." After seeing "Holiday" five times, he decided that she was indeed the queen of Hollywood...
...delicate sense of pity, which the Playgoer possesses despite all evidence to the contrary, influences him to pass over the other picture "Lady by Choice," with but a cursory comment. May Robson, as Paisy Patterson, a been sodden derelict who plays the role of cupid to a bewildered couple, confirms a suspicion that she missed her calling when she tried the movies...
...they come in point of service, none other than Harold Lloyd in "The Cat's Paw," a production adapted from a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson's modern counterpart in honesty, Clarence Buddington Kelland. The other propitiatory offering is a newcomer to the screen, but one on whom the Playgoer would bet his last and bottom dollar. She is Helen Trenholme, appearing with Warren William in "The Case of the Howling...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...like Charlie Ruggles and you can believe the Playgoer that there isn't a better comedian going if you don't have to see him too often) "Melody in Spring" will satisfy your fondest hopes. The little man is good, Lanny Ross sings superbly and Ann Sothern does a good job of listening. And if you don't think Charlie is funny, dressed as a pirate, you're impossible...