LOVE GONE WRONG

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 16

LOVE GONE WRONG

Newspaper Comedy in "There Goes My Girl"

Gene Raymond and Ann Sothcrn score a screen scoop in the newspaper stcry, "There Goes My Girl," which is coming to the May fair Theatre. It is a fast-paced show with plenty of action, thrills, and judiciously-planned comedy The rstars play Ihe roles of rival newspaper reporters who are in love. Their plans to get married are interrupted in the middle of the wedding ceremony by a shooting. Ann Sothern's news instincts predominate and the leaves Raymond .standing at the altar, at which Raymond swears to have nothing more to do with her. When Ann learns that her hard-boiled city editor, played by Richard Lane, has staged the murder hoax because ho is unwilling to lose his best reporter, .ihe becomes angry. She arranges to be detailed on a genuine murder mystery story that Raymond is working on, in hopes of winning him back. They scoop even the police in solving the crime, and once again become enamoured of each other, but the city editor again intervenes. Although their parts are a departure from their usual screen roles, both Raymond and Miss Sothern find themselves perfectly at home in this lively

comedy, and each turns in a splendid performance. . One of the highlights of the picture is an effective Spanish dance by Joan Woodburv, who also cleverly handles one of the principal supporting roles. Frank Jenks stands out in a comedy role, and Gordon Jones, another young actor, plays his part for all that is in it. Richard I,ane is convincing as the sceptical city editor, and Maxine Jennings, Chester Clute, Charles Coleman, and Alec Craig give fine support to the leads. Motion picture producers at times have capitalised on "shots" where, during an accident scene, an injury actually has taken place. Such a sequence occurred in "There Goes My Girl," with Ann Sothern accidentally "suffering a real injury, in place of a make-believe one. Supposedly shot, the actress fell to the floor and accidentally struck her month against a settee, cutting it so badly that five stitches had to be taken, and it was a week before Miss Sothern recovered. After looking at the scene recorded in the camera and on the sound track, the director, Ben Holmes, discarded it. holding that the shuddering crash was too realistic. But when he attempted to make a retake with Miss Sothern she was so nervous, recalling her experience, that he abandoned the effort and used an earlier "take."