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...week's second happy legitimate debut (see below), oldtime Song-&-Dance Man Fred Stone turns in a vivid characterization as hot-blooded "Ace." A great parodist in his time, Actor Stone shines best when, as the persuasive stumpster, he drops into Western, Southern or Irish dialect at will, depending on whom he is trying to persuade. Unconsciously, he confuses the part a bit by also imitating Will Rogers, Eddie Foy and Glenn Anders from time to time...
...little tale her best. She trills four of the seven songs, trips lightly up & down the stage in flat heels and Lanvin costumes. Unlike Pierre Fresnay. who holds the record for the greatest number of performances in Musset and for speaking better English than any other French actor, Mile Printemps does not always articulate the graceful Coward lyrics sufficiently to make them intelligible. But she and M. Fresnay provide an agreeable, if not an eventful, evening in the theatre. Best tune: "I'll Follow My Secret Heart." Best lyric: "Regency Rakes...
Felicity Hughes (Nova Pilbeam) is a thoughtful, slightly neurotic little girl who senses, without defining, the presence of something appallingly ugly in the relations between her father and mother. She learns enough to perceive that Frank Hilliard, an actor whom her mother admires, is somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner...
...Bovary" been chosen as the first in the annual series of selected French talking pictures shown free of charge to Harvard and Radcliffe students during the winter. Gustav Flaubert's novel has been adapted for screen production by Jean Renoir, a brother of the artist Renoir and of the actor who takes the part of Bovary...
Nearing the end of his fabulous career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood...