“DON’T BET ON WOMEN”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 180, 1 August 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)

“DON’T BET ON WOMEN”

I EDMUND LOWE STARRED ! MAJESTIC PROGRAMMES If the list of film heroines to whom Edmund Lowe has, at one time or another, been husband, sweetheart, or lover were made up. it would read like a “Who’s Who” of filmland. Yet he always manages to impart something original and different to his interpretation of the role depending on the nature and temperament, of the leading lady. For example, in “Don’t Bet On Women,” his latest Fox Movietone in which he is featured with Jeanette MacDonald now at the Majestic Theatre, he plays the role of a cynical bachelor whose motto in life is that “all women are bad.” Miss MacDonald as the wife of Roland Young makes it her business to prove that all women are not so bad. especially after she finds out that her husband has forced a ten thousand dollar bet on Lowe that he cannot kiss her within forty-eight hours. She makes it a bad forty-eight hours for both! Thus in previous pictures where his heroines are concerned Lowe was very much on the offensive; in this case Miss MacDonald has him decidedly on the defensive.

“Let Us Be Gay.’’ Norma Shearer is starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the picturisation of “Let Us Be Gay,” which is coming on Wednesday to’ the Majestic Theatre The story is an amusing tale of a woman who loses her husband’s affection because she neglects her appearance in an over-efficient absorbance in . household duties. A few years in Paris, however. teachers her a number of things she had never thought of before and she returns in time to prevent her exhusband from marrying a charming but entirelv unsophisticated debutante. Playing opposite the star is Rod La Rocque, popular silent picture leading man who has risen to frosh honours in talkies. Heading the supporting cast is Marie Dressier. Miss Dressier plays the colourful role of the eccentric dowager who summons Miss Shearer, changed from a dowdy housewife into a smart woman of the world, to \amp a charming man away from her adolescent grand-daughter. Thi« is an ideal characterisation for Miss IDressle.r and she makes the most of it in her own inimitable manner.

“The Glass Key.” the latest mystery novel bv Dashielle Hammett, former detective, has been purchased by Paramount for Ga r y

» Cooper. This story of a young politician who tTirusts himself into the midst of a .startling murder •mystery to save a friend from the gallows. will offer Cooper unlimited possibilities. John Cromwoll has been assigned to direct, and ‘Bartlett Cormack • < writing the screen story.