“I’M NO ANGEL.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 31 (Supplement)

“I’M NO ANGEL.”

Majestic to Show Mae West’s

Latest Film.

“Love, Honour and Oh! Baby!” (Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts) will conclude its season at the Majestic Theatre to-night. The triumphs of Mae West constitute the latest example of the deliberate development of personality. “ She Done Him Wrong ” revealed in her a star utterly unlike any other in the Hollywood constellation, and in “Im No Angel,” which will be the major attraction at the Majestic Theatre on Monday, this provocative creature continues her triumphant way, seeking no aid from dramatic subtleties, but superbly confident of her own personality. Reviewing this film, a northern critic said: “ One gets the impression that one is not seeing Mae West as Tira, the lion tamer, but simply Mae West as Mae West. She sings her songs in her own inimitable way, scorns the use of legs in dancing, believes in horoscopes and entertains decided ambitions But it is not the play that counts so much as the presence of Mae West, a presence as glittering as the diamonds which she so avidly collects. She swaggers through the story with an insolent step, a provocative glance and a wealth of devastating comment. The dialogue is anything but insipid, and. handled by Mae West, it raises tornadoes of laughter. Cary Grant, quiet and debonair, provides an excellent foil to the sublime nerve of the star.” Box plans at the D.I.C.