TOWN HALL TALKIES

Patea Mail, 29 July 1936, Page 2

TOWN HALL TALKIES

iTO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT Aun Harding & Herbert Marshall “ THE FLAME WITHIN* * At last Ann Harding comes to the . ...... in the type of role that wom her fame 0.1 the legitimate stage. . If. was in a highly dramatic production that the New York critics hailed her as another Bernhardt, a young Duse -- but as the result, of an early screen success in a light comedy-drama role she almost invariably has been cast in such parts. In “The Flam-j Within,” however, which opened at the Town iiall on Tues. day, she portrays the highly emotional part of a noted woman, psychiatrist.* It is drama; vital, absorbing drams every step of the way. ' -Sharing the star honours; with the blonde camto beatify is Herbert Marshall, who is seen with her for the first time. Marshall is the handsome, capable doctor who seemingly always had been in Jove with the youthful psychoanalyist. Maureen. O’Sullivan as a neurotic girl, proves that her line dramatic performance in “Barretts of Wimpolo Street” was no accident. She actually surpasses that portrayal in this story, which was written and directed by Edmund Goulding. A TlUvcdmor of great promise, Louis Hayward, makes his" motion picture debut in “The Flame Within,” as the likeable ne’er-do-well, who becomes involved i.n two love affairs. Aftictr seeing him in this screen play it, is not •difficult to understand why ho was awarded the Vanity Fair Medal* for the best stage, .performance of the year in Noel Coward’s “Point Valaine.” Henry Stephenson, as boisterous “Dr. Jock,” friend and confident of Herbert Marshall, gives his usual flaw-: kiss' characterisation. For those looking for something definitely now in story, treatment, and stirring dialogue; for those who like romance as it really is and not as som'o writer imagines, Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr’s “The Flame Within,” -will prove an engrossing piece of photoplay entertainment. THURSDAY & FRIDAY DICK POWELL, RUBY KEELER ‘ ‘SHIPMATES FOREVER’ ’ Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler are again co-starred in the new Cosmopolitan drania-witli-mulsic, “Shipmates Forever,” which opens at the Town IL.iJI to-morrow. The famous screen, lovers who made their first bit in “42nd Street,” following it with ‘Gold Diggers of 19315, * “Flirtation Walk,” and other screen successes, appear in their most pretentious picture in “Shipmates Forever,” a thrilling drama of midshipman! Hf«. r Dick sings a number of catchy songs which fall naturally into the plot, lys being ia crooner at a New York park casino before becoming a naval cadet. Mijss Keeler, who plays the part of a’u orphaned daughter of a naval officer, compelled to cam her living dancing in a night club, gives an exhibition if fancy tap-dancing with the famous Megliu Kiddies,