Jean Harlow and Clark Gable In Picture Triumph

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7314, 15 November 1933, Page 5

Jean Harlow and Clark Gable In Picture Triumph

FILM HAS ALL IN WAY OF FIKST RATE APPEAL Jean Harlow and Clark Gable are teamed again in “Hold Your Man,” which is coming to the Ivosy on November 22. In a story calculated to afford the co-stars opportunity for performances fitting their individual talents and personalities, M.G.M. oilers a production both intensely dramatic and romantic. An original by Anita Loos, the story concerns a rowdy love affair that begins as a sketchy interlude but winds up as a vividly human romance.

Sam Wood has directed the picture with a lino valuation of the starring pair's popularity. His tempo is swift and smooth and the love scenes are about as warm as this reviewer has seen in many a day—or night. As the cheap littlo drifter who goes to prison for the man she loves, Miss Harlow endows her characterisation with a wistful sympathy and humour, Gable banters his way through the early part of the picture with delightful nonehalancc which sharply contrasts his important work in the climactic sequences when he risks arrest on a murder charge. Stuart Erwin is excellent in .the*!

1 first serious tolo we have seen him play. Dorothy Burgess also comes in for her share of plaudits and the cast is rounded out by such splendid players as Muriel Kirkland, Carry Owen, Barbara Barondess, Paul Hurst, Elizabeth Patterson, Theresa Harris, BlancheFridcrici and George Reed. There also is a song hit, “Hold Your Man,” by Nacio Herb Brown and j\tliur Freed,