Monday, Apr. 22, 1940

Also Showing

The Biscuit Eater (Paramount). A biscuit eater is a retriever who instead of fetching back game for his master to eat, eats it himself. This unsporting behavior puts the cur outside the pale. Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn a born biscuit eater into a total abstainer and top-notch bird dog. But nearly everybody will enjoy the performances of the biscuit cater (Promise), the colored boy (Cordell Hickman), the white boy (Billy Lee) and the field trials filmed in Albany, Ga.

The House of the Seven Gables (Universal) will enable people who have sometimes wondered what Nathaniel Hawthorne's 381-page New England novel is about to find out in some 87 minutes. It is about the property lust and slow decline of the Pyncheon tribe. Hawthorne addicts will not be too much upset since with a little more taste in casting and staging, this might have been a first-rate film. George Sanders is greedy Brother Jaffrey Pyncheon. Vincent Price is his long-suffering brother. Clifford. As prim, loyal, repressed Cousin Hepzibah, Margaret Lindsay does a Bette Davis, and does it pretty well.

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