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The Crimson Playgoer

Screen Version of Pulitzer Prize Play Starring Clark Cable and Myrna Loy is Feature Picture

Heading the bill at the University this week is the screen version of the play which won the Pulitzer Prize this year and is still playing in New York, "Men in White". Torn between conflicting obligations Dr. Furguson, played by Clark Gable, is faced with the problem of continuing what promises to be a brilliant career as a surgeon or "riding" to oblivion in a limousine" with the pretty face and figure of Myrna Loy at this side. Gable turns in an adequate performance and is decidedly better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna Loy finds it difficult to register emotion convincingly and is much better in an exotic role than in the one she is forced to play in this picture. Very well cast in her difficult role is Elizabeth Allan, who plays the nurse silently in love with the young interne. Jean Hersholt, as the eminent surgeon, and Otto Kruger, as the struggling practitioner stuck with a wife when a young interne, both turn in good performances. "Men in White" should certainly be seen by anyone contemplating a career of research where there is lots of work and little time for love-making.

As a companion piece to this moralizing talkie is "The Trumpet Blows". George Raft is featured as the Mexican matador who at heart is yellow. His East Said diction seems out of place in this picture of Mexican life and as usual he demonstrates his inability as an actor. Better cast is Adolph Menjou who plays his brother. Both men fall in love with the rhumba dancer Chulita, played by Frances Drake, and around her the story is centered. The piece is very mediocre but may appeal to those who like bullfights and vampire-like women.

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