TRIUMPH FOR CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Evening Star, Issue 22192, 21 November 1935, Page 1

TRIUMPH FOR CLAUDETTE COLBERT

‘ PRIVATE WORLDS * FOR ST. JAME 3 TO-MORROW Claudette Colbert, who won the Motion Picture Academy Award for 1934 with a comedy portrayaL and whose roles in the past have ranged from an Egyptian sorceress to a modern devoted mother, essays a totally new type of characterisation in her new starring Paramount picture, ‘ Private Worlds,’ which is to open a season at the St. James to-morrow. A story laid against the background of a hospital for the insane. ‘ Private Worlds ’ presents Miss Colbert as a trim, efficient, and beautiful doctor, who heals the mental illnesses of others, although she cannot conquer the fear of love in her own heart. Miss Colbert and Joel M’Crea, who is married to Joan Bennett, find happiness in their experimental work, until their little world is broken-up by the arrival of Charles Boyer, new head of the hospital, and his vampire sister, Helen Vinson. M‘Crea is lured away from his wife by Helen Vinson. Boyer’s interference in the routine of the hospital creates riots and a serious situation. Agonised by her husband’s infidelity, Joan Bennett totters on the verge of insanity herself. In a dramatic and gripping climax, Miss Colbert manages to unsnarl the tangled relations

of this "little group, and finds love foP herself. - Boyer, the young French star who is winning laurels in Hollywood, plays opposite her. Glosely tied up with the main plot is a three-cornered romance involving M'Crea, Miss Bennett, and Miss Vinson. Miss Colbert’s rpl* offers her the opportunity to combine the best features of her light-hearted portrayals in 1 The Gilded Lily ’ and ‘lt Happened One Night’ with th« more serious characterisations of som* of her previous efforts.