The Met screen this week is displaying the new Carole Lombard opus. "The Princess Comes Across" and the boards are carrying the weighty burden of a Cliff Edwards hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria with the romantic Elizabeth of Bavaria. Miss Moore is not in quite the best of voice but the picture has a very pleasant lilt and benefits muchly by the presence of the admirable Walter Connolly.

At the Paramount and Fenway we find two unexciting films, namely, "Brides Are Like That", a harmless and mildly amusing romance and "The Country Beyond", a saga of the Canadian Mounted writen by James Curwood and just what you'd imagine. Conrad Veidt stars in the Fine Arts presentation of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", the ancient Jerome K. Jerome allegorical story telling about the bringing of sweetness and light into the lives of a bitter boarding house crew; for those with a quaint sense of humor.

Second Runs

The University is basing its claims this week upon two diverting features and a reasonable suspicion that exams sharpen the movie-urge. The featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece is the now familiar "Give Us This Night" which offers the pleasing voice and ever so charming person of Miss Gledys Swarthout singing her way through a Neopolitan opera romance. She is considerably abetted by Jan Kiepara.