THE MOVIEGOER

Source material was abandoned when Hollywood set out to put "Tobacco Road" on celluloid. Gone entirely is the sociological message about hillbilly living conditions which has sent many metropolitan and rural audiences home with rotating intestines and a sincere wish that no one had even brought up the matter. Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet tradition.

"The Man Who Lost Himself" must have done so because Kay Francis was his leading lady.