DOUBLE ATTRACTION

Northern Advocate, 26 October 1935, Page 3

DOUBLE ATTRACTION

DICK POWELL IN “FLIRTATION WALK.” SEVERAL NEW SONG HITS. The most popular co-starring team on the screen today, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, make their fifth appearance together in “Flirtation Walk,” now showing at the Plaza. Where their other successes have presented them against a theatrical background, “Flirtation ’’ Walk” shows them in an entirely new setting.' Their romance begins in Hawaii, where. Ruby, a General’s daughter, meets Dick, a young private in the army. Then the action switches to West Point, where Dick is trying to make himself an “officer and gentleman.” Frank Borzage, famed for “Seventh Heaven,” and “Little Man, What Now?” directed the Keeler* Powell picture in which Pat O’Brien has a leading role as a tough army sergeant. There are several magnificent dance sequences, directed by Bobby Connolly and featuring hundreds of Hollywood’s most beautiful girls. The Hawaiian dance number introduces Sol Hoopi and his orchestra, known to all lovers of the theatre.

Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland are teamed as the grand old married couple of the screen for the ninth time in “People Will Talk,” the second feature.’ The pair who have impersonated the meek husband and domineering wife, are reunited in a picture that gives them a greater opportunity than ever before to display their particular talent for squeezing the last possible drop of laughter out of every situation. Leila Hyams and Dean dagger head the supporting cast of the picture. Miss Hyams is cast as Ruggles’ and Miss Boland’s newly-wed daughter. After a scrap with her husband, played by dagger, she coihes back to her mother in tears, vowing she’ll have a divorce.

To show her her mistake, Miss Boland has the brilliant idea of staging a fake fight with Ruggles; just so the girl can see how silly it looks when married folks battle. Charlie agrees, and the mock feud between the older couple is on. It is here, however, that complications arise. Miss Boland forgets her fight with Ruggles is all in fun and becomes indignant over the way he abuses her. Soon it’s she who is hurrying off to an attorney to arrange for a divorce.

It all comes to a climax, at a charity wrestling match where Ruggles, the referee, is caught between two huge giants, and Miss Boland is forced to come to his, rescue.