"WHIPSAW."

Evening Post, Issue 79, 2 April 1936, Page 7

"WHIPSAW."

Majestic Attraction,

'Adventure and romance, drama and comedy, are deftly blended in "Whipsaw," which brings Myrna Loy to the screen in a new hit with Spencer Tracy as her-co-star. The picture, which opens at the Majestic Theatre tomorrow, is claimed to take its place among the more important new season screen offerings. Seldom has Hollywood given theatre-goers a niore happily mated team of stars than Miss Loy and Tracy. The latter has a role in which his delightful brand of egotism and • bombast is tempered with an entirely human romance. . Miss Loy's characterisation gives her an opportunity for the whimsical lightness she first displayed so fetchingly in "The Thin Man" and which marked her as a vivid new screen personality. "Whipsaw" is a story of "angles." Not only does the locale shift with lightning rapidity from London to New York and thence throughout many mid-Western cities, but the mood and the direction of the story shift almost as rapidly. The .plot concerns itself with smuggled jewels, which .Miss Loy, as a member of an international ring of jewel thieves, is presumed to have in her possession. Tracy is a secret service man, who attempts to trap her through romantic intrigue. He manoeuvres her into a situation in which she must pass as his wife, and the story moves swiftly through a chain of events which keeps excitement and suspense at fever heat. An excellent supporting cast includes Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan, Robert Warwick, Irene Franklin, Lillian Leighton, Wade Boteler. and Clay Clement, among others. John Qualen is a ,new personality''who scores a dis-tinct-personal triumph as a bewildered Missouri farmer. .'William Ingersoll gives an excellent performance as a country. doctor.