Spencer Tracy.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19210, 17 September 1934, Page 2

Spencer Tracy .

THE KING’S THEATRE. j TWO SPLENDID FILMS. | “Bright Side Up,” featuring Spencer Tracy at the head of a strong cast, was given a hearty reception by a crowded house at the King’s Theatre on Saturday evening. It is a deljghtful romantic comedy with music, including four distinct hits. ;John Boles’ singing voice has several opportunities in the songs that are logically woven into the story, which, briefly, deals with the efforts of three merry rogues and a girl with movie ambitions to crash the golden gates of Hollywood; and when they succeed, the girl (Rat Paterson) finds herself actually falling in love with the hero of her first movie. The resulting complications lead to an unusual climax. Most of the comedy is supplied by Spencer Tracy, Herbert Mundin, Harry Green and Sid Silvers. The story brings out into the open the truism that you have to bluff Hollywood to win its. favour. And thereby hangs the plot.

“When New York Sleeps,” the other big film, also features Spencer Tracy, with Helen Twelvetrees and Alice Fay. It portrays the role of a man whose code of life contained no such word as “fail.” He believed he was wrong only if he lost. The film is a cavalcade of New York’s sporting and night life. The city’s most exciting years, from 1910 to 1932, are lived again in this powerful story of a woman’s great love for a strange man. It’s, a story that has never been told before, revealing intimate details of a fascinating life, and the dramatic events that led up to its tremendous climax in the man’s tragic, mysterious death. This fine programme is to be repeated to-night.