THE CINEMA
" The Light of Heart." At the Tivoli.—!• Lucky Jordan." At the Plaza.—" The Little Hump-Backed Horse." At the Taller.
ALTHOUGH The Light of Heart heads the list of new releases, it does so only in the sense that even the most dejected tail must have a head somewhere. It is from the play by Emlyn Williams, and remains stagey in style. The story is of a famous old actor (Monty Woolley), who has drunk himself into poverty, and makes such demands upon his devoted daughter (Ida Lupino) that he almost ruins her life as well as his own. The film opens with a brilliant sequence which is pure cinema, but falls away to a conventional happy ending, which has been tacked on to the original theme.
Lucky 7ordan is a very curious piece of work. It might well have been sponsored by some awful transatlantic caricature of our Ministry of Information in its early days. It I war propaganda at its most naive. The Little Hump-Backed Horse is not in the top rank of Soviet productions, but it is one of the first colour films
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