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Handed the thankless task of replacing Douglas Fairbanks in D'Artagnan's floppy boots, Actor Walter Abel, in his Hollywood debut, seems a trifle more nervous than a swashbuckler should be. This is due less to his own shortcomings than to the curiosities of the story. Investigating the means whereby the Queen of France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos...
First-Nighter Roosevelt, whose husband has been accused of some fairly impractical promotions, must have winced at Hero Hanna's befuddled, sketchy plans to make his town and State a social and political "model for America." Adept only at rough-&-tumble, Actor Tracy indicates strong emotion simply by blinking his eyes, bobbing his Adam's apple...
...sell it for a dollar. With characteristic shrewdness he knew that the kind of show he wanted to put on would take months of rehearsal, that to pay a large cast during this period would break him. So he managed to get his production outside the straitjacket supervision of Actor's Equity. Result is that while Jumbo has been steadily in the making since July, and while its premiere has been postponed every week since Labor Day, he has yet to pay his actors a cent...
...becomes definitely worth seeing, both as a work of art and as an expensive and experimental curiosity. It compares favorably with any stage production the play is likely to receive. Ably directed by William Dieterle, assisted by rather than assisting Max Reinhardt who gave him his start as an actor in Germany, it seems likely to start a Shakespeare cycle in the cinema...
...dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...