This is another case of the second feature outshining the first, but the competition isn't stiff by any means. You may find them relaxing, but chances are just as likely you may find them boring.

"Life Begins at 8:30" is a melange of the vituperative and the maudlin, presumably designed to fit its stars, Monty Wooley and Ida Lupino. A little more of the vituperative would have helped, since too much of the original stage plot of Emlyn "The Corn Is Green" Williams still shows through, despite "The Beard's efforts to give his role a vitriolic dignity. When the play was debuted, New York critics dubbed it "The Corn Is Ripe." That still holds.

The original was a sob drama of a dipsomaniac actor whose crippled daughter gets him back in condition for the stage, only to have him turn up crocked the opening night. End: suicide. The scripters have rewritten the part of fit Wooley, and the first fifteen minutes of the show are superb. From then on it's all out on the tear ducts, with Lupino clomping around and being too, too brave about it all, followed about by the worst juvenile lead of the year, mouthing the worst love language of the year.

The better feature is "A Night to Remember," but you'll forget it easily enough. It's a spotty murder mystery with a few funny and a few exciting moments, all of which were given away in the prevue. Loretta Young looks starry-eyed and goitrous, while Brian Aherne does what he can with material that calls on him to be intelligent one moment and a preuatal idiot the next.