Cinema check list

Helen Brown Norden

• MAN OF TWO WORLDS—Francis Lederer, the Czecho-Slovakian heartbreaker, makes his American film debut as an Eskimo, and, despite the use of unflattering make-up and pigeon-English speeches, he preserves his sex appeal practically intact and proves himself an actor of charm and ability. Steffie Duna is the cutest little Eskimo squaw you ever saw.

• MOULIN ROUGE—Constance Bennett plays a dual rôle and sings several songs in what is one of her best pictures to date. When you see her in a black wig, you will understand why she ought to be glad she is a blonde.

• LET'S FALL IN LOVE—Edmund Lowe, Tala Birell, Miriam Jordan, Gregory Ratoff and Ann Sothern—who used to be Harriett Lake on the Broadway musical stage—in a musical film with some good tunes by Harold "Stormy Weather" Arlen. Gregory Ratoff, as a Hollywood producer, steals the picture.

• FASHIONS OF 1934—Based on the racket of pirating fashion designs, this picture serves as an elaborate style show for some rather too, too Hollywood designs by one Orry-Nelson. William Powell, Bette Davis and Verec Teasdale are in it.

• EIGHT GIRLS IN A BOAT—Handicapped by an entirely irrelevant title, this is a somewhat touching story of a school girl who gets "in trouble." It is worth seeing for the lovely and tender performance of Dorothy Wilson, a short time ago a stenographer at the RKO studios and now an actress of sincerity and great promise.

• I WAS A SPY—A British war picture, with Herbert Marshall and a beautiful, but wooden, blonde named Madeleine Carroll. Adapted from Marthe McKenna's book of the same title. Almost everyone in the cast is a spy, which is exciting but hardly seems practical.

• AS HUSBANDS GO—Helen Vinson as an American wife on the loose in Paris. She decides to leave her husband for another man, but then changes her mind. No one much cares.

• CRADLE SONG—If you can find this at any of your neighborhood theatres, you are fortunate. It is closer to a work of art than Hollywood usually gets—the story of a Spanish nun, done with delicacy and reverence, and beautifully acted by Dorothea Wieck in what was one of the best performances of 1933.

• I AM SUZANNE —A Lilian Harvey musical in which the Italian Piccoli puppets steal the whole show.

• MASSACRE—The mere deed of casting Richard Barthelmess as an Indian justifies the title.

• FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE—Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland and William Gargan in an entertaining picturization of the novel by E. Arnot Robertson. Miss Boland is swell as a lady who brings birth control to the Malayan jungles.

• DINNER AT EIGHT—This all-star grab-bag is still going the rounds. In it are Marie Dressier, Lionel and John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Madge Evans, Karen Morley, Billie Burke, Phillips Holmes and Jean Harlow. You take all the others and leave us Jean Harlow.

• ESKIMO—A pictorial version of the book by Peter Freuchen. If you are interested in the love-life of the Eskimo—with sidelights on his habits at home—this will fascinate you. There is also some magnificent photography.