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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1934)
» Jean Harlow in the part of a nelf- centered fluaie wife of a hi|( *ho( in "Dinner At KinM." 3 THE feATTALION .t By TOM f . y ! AT THF PALACE— Sunday and Monday: M Fu>ritive Lovers.” Tuesday and Wednesday: “l^ady For a Day.” Thursday. Friday, and Saturday: “Dinner At EiKht ” At the Palace Tonight: “House on 56th Street.” 1 , . i Life plays a series of nasty pranks on Kay Fran cis. in the part of Peggy, Ijorn of gambling parents, F lor ad ora girl, and victim of circumstantial evidence in the shooting of a man. If ever there was a wistful . case of cheated humanity, it’s Peggy Martin who nev er got the breaks and didn’t know what happiness was, for any length of time. Her ideal of happiness was the house on 56th Street, with its nursery and the security of love there. After serving a sentence in jail she returns to find that the house has been changed to a gambling den. She gets a job dealing blackjack there, and plays a- gainst her own daughter, who is always the loser. Kay Francis cau-aarry a strong role as well as the next one, ^ and does a good bit in this picture. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Ray mond, John Hallidav, and Margaret Lindsay. ■ mm "■ .i ■ ! • . Sunday and Monday at the Palace: ‘‘Fugitive Lovers.” Robert Montgomery is in the heavies! He has lieen , lifted from the light, bubbling comedies and put in a really dramatic spot. “Fugitive Lovers” comes out as one of his first real jobs in this line, and he docs well in it. An escaped prisoner, he is hounded by the police as he shrewdly picks his way across the country to freedom. Madge Evans, likewise fleeing, but not from the police, furnishes the love interest. Soften your heartstrings, boys, as Montgomery Prexiew Saturday Night onlv: “Elvsia.” r * i « t runs through the old, old theme of the hero gaining freedom by doing something really brave and daring! Cast: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, and Nat Pendelton. 'r Tuesday and Wednesday at the Palace; “Lady For a Da> .” ^ An excellent picture with a unique story ds “l^ady For a Day.” ' i 1 ' . It portrays a big-hearted Broadway, something hard to imagine. Apple Annie, played by May Robson, is the highlight of a story whose pathos is undeniably ♦ one of the most gripping of the season. She puts up the bluff that she is a lady of means w'hen she cor responds with her daughter, who lives in Spain. The daughter does rather well for herself in catching a Spanish Count. His father, wishing to verify the fac£ that her mother is of the best school, plans a trip over to see her. Penniless and an old apple-seller, she doesn’t know what to do to insure her daughter’s hap piness by this marriage. Since she is a likable institu tion around Broadway, the “mugs,” “smart guys," and “night club birds” set her up posed as a lady of quality, ‘ ' i