LIFE IN CHICAGO

Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 7

LIFE IN CHICAGO

1 THREE GIRLS LOST ’ COMEDY FOR STRAND The now programme for presentation at the Strand Theatre to-morrow is one of extraordinary appeal. Apart from its lively presentation of some aspects of life in Chicago, ‘ Three Girls Lost,’ a Fox picture, is a study of human nature and its response to new conditions. The three players who give the film its title—Loretta Young, Joan Marsa, and Joyce Compton—have been exceptionally well cast, and their talent has been properly emphasised by _ the director, Sidney Lanfield. Particularly is this so with Miss Young, whoso sincere and balanced acting gives her a personal triumph. Her romance with John Wayne, who plays tbe part of Gordon Wales, a rising architect, who is wrongfully accused of a gangster murder, is entirely different from the usual romantic theme. Both Mr Wayne and Miss Young give impressive performances with a restraint uncommon for performers whose experience may be regarded as a preliminary to more important work. Tbe three girls are strangers who form a friendship in a passenger airplane flying to Chicago. _ It is when they take an apartment in the city and set about the earnest business of finding employment that their characters are revealed. Miss Young, as Noreen, immediately appears in a responsible light, ifith Edna (Miss Compton) as a well-meaning though somewhat negative friend. Miss Marsh plays well as Marcia, who eventually deserts her two friends in her preference for gaiety. Her tastes arc the cause of complications, especially when she becomes associated with a criminal clement.

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