Cinema check list

Helen Brown Norden

• NANA—Anna Sten, the highly publicized Soviet bombshell, as Zola's great courtesan. Miss Sten, plump and luscious, proves to be better than the picture.

• CATHERINE THE GREAT—A colorful and frequently exciting British film, introducing to America one of Europe's finest actresses, Elisabeth Bergner.

• QUEEN CHRISTINA—Garbo, the Great Swede, returns to the films after eighteen months to prove once again the futility of all her imitators. The story of Sweden's 17th century queen is brilliantly directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

• KEEP 'EM ROLLING—Walter Huston in a tear-jerker about the love of a soldier for his horse. Hokum, but it gets you.

• PALOOKA—Jimmie Durante and Lupe Velez give all they've got to this one. Durante fans will go crazy over it; those who get tired of him after the first hour will like it somewhat less.

• CAROLINA—The Old South, with Lionel Barrymore and Janet Gaynor, in a screen version of Paul Green's The House oj Connelly. Miss Gaynor's recipe is evidently to sweeten to taste, but 600,000 Girl Scouts can't be wrong.

• BOLERO—George Raft and Carole Lombard in a picture supposed to be based on the life of the late great dancer Maurice. His estate should sue for libel.

• THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN—Lionel Barrymore and Fay Bainter in some heavy propaganda for the home and the family.

• ALL OF ME—George Raft, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March in a film proving that love in the underworld is finer than it is among the upper classes. A newcomer, Helen Mack, steals the picture with a sincere and moving performance as the crook's girl.

• MOULIN ROUGE—Constance Bennett plays a dual role and sings several songs in what is one of her best pictures to date. When you see her in a black wig, you will understand why she ought to be glad she is a blonde.

• I AM SUZANNE —A Lilian Harvey musical in which the Italian Piccoli puppets steal the whole show.

• MASSACRE—The mere deed of casting Richard Barthelmess as an Indian justifies the title.

• FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE—Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland and William Gargan in an entertaining picturization of the novel by E. Arnot Robertson. Miss Boland is swell as a lady who brings birth control to the Malayan jungles.

• LITTLE WOMEN—If you haven't yet seen this, you might as well go and get your cry over with. Beautifully directed by George Cukor, with a good cast, headed by Katharine Hepburn.

• DARK HAZARD—Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin and the wisecracking Glenda Farrell in a race track story by the author of Little Caesar.

• YOU CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING—May Robson all dressed up in a poke bonnet, pretending she is Hetty Green, New York's famed lady miser.

• MANDALAY—Kay Francis goes wrong in the Orient and Warner Bros, went wrong on this picture.