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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
...located in imaginary realms of the nether Balkans. One needs only a short time at "The Duchess of Chicago" at the Shubert to realize that those misgivings were justified. The inevitable unrecognized prince is there; so are the dulcet-voiced prime minister and the financial adviser with a foreign accent. The plot (devised in Europe), evidently an outgrowth of the violent anti-Shylock days, is based on the poverty of the prince and the exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this not over-inspired fabric are worked comedy dialogue that is not funny...
...digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which is transformed into the sound waves of Miss Shaughnessy's best accent. The manual operator listens, plugs in the call, does not even have to say "Thank...
After "Street Girl", current attraction at the University Theatre, has been seen, one wonders why there aren't more like it. It is another all talking-singing-dancing picture, but not just another one. Betty Compson, having taken unto herself a French accent, combines with Jack Oakie and Ned Sparks, to give cinema patrons one of the snappiest and most delightful musical movies to date. The entire picture has a certain swing that is sure to captivate one, and, contrary to most movies of its type, "Street Girl" has a continuity to it that keeps it from the bromidal class...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal). When Showboat was finished, Universal had plenty of material left over?pantalettes, clippings of river scenes, Joseph Schildkraut's southern accent, beaver hats, some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...