TENSE SCENES, SMART DIALOGUE

Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 18

TENSE SCENES, SMART DIALOGUE

k PENTHOUSE * AT KING The adventures of, a society lawyer who establishes a practice among the carious circles of the racketeers,-' are revealed in ‘ Penthouse,’ the exciting film starring Warner Baxter , and Myrna Loy which comes to the King Edward Theatre to-night. Baxter plays the part of the lawyer , who is brought into a particularly, dangerous case in order to save the man who has just taken away Baxter’s sweetheart. The case is one in which a racketeer leader has taken revenge, and the first thing which the lawyer receives is a warning to keep out. Paradoxically, the- defence also asks him to retire from the field, his association with unsavoury cases not being to their liking, but he refuses to withdraw, and before the end has succeeded in winning his case and in winning a bride. The picture abounds with tense situations, and is well acted by a large cast. Seldom has there been a more close-knit or more exciting plot. The skeins of the clot are well twisted, but the threads are never broken; and there is a fascinating interest in .watching the unravelling of them. For probably the first time in her screen career Myrna Loy shares the final fade-out with- the hero. She definitely abandons the'sloeeyed Oriental type into which' she seemed to have been cast for eternity, ■ and makes a delightful, witty, unconventional, and charming heroine. Others of note in. a cast that could hardly have been bettered are Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes, and George E. Stone. ‘ His Grace Gives Notice ’. also s will be shown. It is an uproarious farce of a butler who turns out to be a duke. Arthur Margetson, a British comedian, is starred.’ -