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Academy Awards are gold-plated statuets nicknamed Oscars. Oscar for the 1936 best performance by an actor went last week to Paul Muni, who attended the banquet wearing the beard he used in his forthcoming The Woman I Love. The award was for his work in the title role of The Story of Louis Pasteur. Screenwriters Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings, who wrote and adapted The Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra...
...Hollywood. Directed by George Nicholls Jr., and supervised by Ermolieff, the parts made in Hollywood are so shrewdly interwoven with those made in Russia that cinemaddicts will be unable to guess where one starts and the other stops. To make his coup perfect, Producer Berman imported famed Viennese Actor Anton Walbrook who had played the lead in the European version. In his first appearance on the U. S. screen, Actor Walbrook's performance suggests that he will be almost as good an investment for the long pull as the picture is for a quick turn. Most spectacular shot: Ogareff...
...metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor's wife. Those are the elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter. All that does count is that Overman is sufficiently much of an actor to make one of those clever mysteries movies realistic for a change. Perhaps that is because the directors didn't dress him up ever so smartly or make him say such very smart things...
When the chronicle reaches the establishment of TVA and its legal ups-&-downs, the Opposition is given a curt inning. An actor, who evidently did not see dynamic young President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. in the MARCH OF TIME'S TVA sequence last year, dodders out as Mr. Willkie in a white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum...
Died. Sir Guy Standing, 63, versatile British actor; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He commanded a destroyer in the War, was knighted for service with the British War Mission to the U. S. in 1918. A talented pianist and marine artist, he had not been well since a Black Widow spider bit him during the filming of Lives of a Bengal Lancer...