The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1933, Page 8

| SIDE GLANCES - - - By George Clark | HIS CURIOUS WORLD — | T THE Vanity Street’ Shows Women’s Side of Case ‘The one side of present-day condi- tions that the movies have heretofore neglected— unaware of the great dramatic power of its poignancy— was brought to the screen of the Cap- | itol Theatre in “Vanity Street,” with Charles Bickford and Helen Chandler in the principal roles. In a mannef subtle, understanding and heart-rending—as well as amus- ing—“Vanity Street” shows how the ‘women of the country “took it” when ‘Wall Street shivered convulsively and sent its economic catilepsy like the Plague throughout the country. Columbia has chosen to reveal this feminine side of modern life by tell- ing the moving story of Jeanie Gregg, portrayed by Helen Chandler, whom ‘we meet so mentally low, so poverty- stricken and so despondent that she heaves a brick through a drug store window in order to get a free meal ticket in jail, where at least she can eat and sleep without fear of the morrow. The story moves with swift inter- est and catching poignancy, deliver- ing a colorful and realistic spectacle that is not so spectacular that it over- shadows the dramatic plot that Gert- » Tude Purcell has written into the . Script from the story by Frank Cavett and Edward Roberts, two of Colum- bia’s younger writers. Buy or Sell Through The Tribune Want Ads MOVIES Paramount Builds U.S. Senate Chamber | On Hollywood Lot The chamber in the U. 8. capitol | building in which the senate banking and currency committee last year conducted its investigation of the stock market was duplicated in its entirety for use as a setting in “The | Billion Dollar Scandal,” drama of ; government intrigue, which comes to | the Paramount Theatre Thursday. | Robert Armstrong, Constance Cum- mings, Olga Baclanova, Frank Mor- gan, James Gleason, Irving Pichel and | Warren Hymer head the picture's cast. | "Plot of the film centers around a | group of financiers who attempt to mulct the federal government in a tremendous swindle. They are ex- Posed in a dramatic trial conducted by @ senatorial investigation com- | mittee. Authenticity for the trial sequences was demanded by Harry Joe Brown, director of the picture. He set Har- rison Willey, art director, to work dig- | ging up newsreel and still shots of rooms in the capitol. Willey soon found that the stock market investi- gation had been productive of more news photographs than any other | held in the past decade. He assem- bled several hundred, and from these proceeded to duplicate the inquisi- torial chamber. Armstrong, Glgison and Hymer Play the roles of a trio of paroled convicts who are instrumental in turning up the scandal and in bring- ing its perpetrators to justice. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1988 CE BIM NAS ARRIVED - HAS HE SEEN pe terre) FROM HIS OLD LOVE — HENRIETTA ZANDER = NOW MRS. TOM CARR— BUT TODAY AS. HE ioe. SHE ER STORE FOR Ci acai: he meee TNE GUMPS— HEAVEN EYES CERTAINLY SEEMS Yo Mest AGREED ‘VE HAD ENOUGH INITIATION | DON'T YOUR OLD SECRET Six ANYHOW. SALESMAN SAM an RANMA I NALIN: — 3 inl E, | WISH CAR. MATOR. HADN'T LET Me CFE TO GET THIS TOOTH PULLED! (Ve LOST MY NERVE AN’ ('A AFRAIO mW DENTIST LL YANK OY €Z,; Be EGO We: Za Wi Att- | CALLED ) O1,1'% so Sorry: HES O s NOul—aunitiune | Can Bo tor : On wen! we sv EASY 5 You how, WEN SPN THAT GENIUS AN INSANITY ARE PRACTICALLY ACCUSATIONS AND FISTS FLY! ATTAROY! Tew 910 IT,