The Crimson Playgoer

There is no more sensitive actress in Hollywood than Miss Hepburn, and her portrayal of Alice Adams is an apt do menstruation of this ability to reflect subtle shades of feeling. Surrounded by an able cast she gets off a couple of scenes that are quite unforgettable.

One is the party that Alice goes to in last year's gown with her brother in the rain. There is something pathetic and yet faintly comic about her poor little deceptions and her bright efforts to make a go of it. And the whole business is done with restraint. The brother's clothes are just a little off without being ridiculous; his semi-hick manner of dancing is funny without being farce. When Alice is snubbed she is gently snubbed.

The scene where Alice is at last forced to have her beau to dinner in their ugly little house is a classic. The night is stifling, the dinner is much too heavy, could go wrong does from the disintegration of father's dinner clothes, to some of the most convincing embarrassed conversation you ever heard.

Someone called Hattie McDaniels plays the part of the hopelessly incompetent hired girl in a manner that had us out in the aisle with amusement.

The Paramount News is a knockout including Professor Mather on the Oath Bill and the most sinister pictures yet to get back from Ethiopia.

(And next week we're going to pan something if it kills us!)