METROPOL.—"Super-Sleuth."—Ann Sothern and Jack Oakie share the perils that beset them when Oakie, a screen sleuth who essays playing detective in real life, is trapped in a chamber of horrors by a maniac killer, who seeks to end his activities. The picture is a mystery-comedy melodrama combination, with a background of picture-making in the screen capital, Opens to-day.
NANKING.—"Pick a Star"—The furious fun and melodious music furnishes full entertainment for everyone. Romantic and human interest interludes. Jack Haley and Rosina Lawrence—added and hampered by Patsy Kelly and Mischa Auer—as the home town boy and girl making the trek from Waterloo, Kansas, to Hollywood, California, vied with the rib-tickling episodes of Laurel and Hardy making a movie, and the glamour and tunes of Lyda Robert: in a "hot-cha" film. opera to reveal close-ups and behind-the-scenes of the studios. Reviewed yesterday.
GRAND.—"High, Wide and Handsome."—A hard-üghting thrill-studded drama of America's first Bette Davis in a role at the Cathay Theatre 10-4
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