The Crimson Playgoer

"Bombshell" is a movie you should see if you appreciate Miss Harlow in an amusing role, and if you have no illusions about the way in which movie stars get their publicity. Throughout the film each character seems determined to prove to you that Hollywood is cheerfully mad in every respect, and they succeed admirably.

Lola is a temperamental movie actress who receives thousands of fan letters. She buys three tremendous sheep dogs to keep her happy; she wants a baby; she decides she does not want a baby. Her life has many complications; the most serious of all is her press agent who goads men to fight for her. And the morning papers reveal that the "Hollywood Bombshell" was entertaining one gentleman in her home when another gentleman dropped in, and then neither was a gentleman. Lola is humiliated at the cheap, untrue advertisement which she receives. Before the end of the film she fires and rehires press agent Space many times, but she finally yields to him in a beautiful Minerva, or Rolls.

Jean Harlow, as Lola, strikes the high point of her spasmodic career. She is an excellent comedienne; without a whiskey, or humorous line she manages to shine in every scene in "Bombshell." Lee Tracy is adequate as the press agent. Paging Will Hays. Your censors are a feeble lot.

Will Rogers in the other movie, "Dr. Bull," fails to convince us that country doctors are any better than they were ten years ago. Dialogue and direction were feeble, and the story was wholly unsuited to Will Rogers' limited talents.