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...revival, Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Geddes production lops a good-sized chunk off the original script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut in the title role. Stout Colin Keith-Johnston (Journey's End) of the husky voice is Laertes. Friends of Leon Quartermaine who remember his eminently sympathetic treatment of "Uncle" in Journey...
...year the Romberg romance has been laid in French Indo-China by Librettists Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel. In this comparatively virgin territory a young woman (Charlotte Lansing) weds a young man (William Williams) although his upstanding brother (J. Harold Murray) is also in love with her. Unfortunately, Actor Williams succumbs to the swimming hips of a dancing girl (Ahi). The musical journey leads to Paris, where Actress Lansing goes from good to bad, then to Marseilles, where she goes from bad to worse. Honest Actor Murray, of course, finally finds, redeems...
This grim but lively melodrama, even more than her earlier vehicles (Always Goodby, Wicked) shows the potentialities of Elissa Landi as an emotional actress. A stage success of 17 years ago, the picture has two other noteworthy performances?by Laurence Olivier, a mild spoken English actor with unusually good camera presence, and Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore, the best leerer in his family, achieves facial contortions of unparalleled eloquence; he has added a scratchy guffaw to his paraphernalia of lechery. Good shot: the scene in a cabaret in which a song sung by the performers reminds Barrymore where he first saw Elissa...
...Woman Between (R. K. O.-Radio) is an example of appalling incompetence. Its story is 1915 drama couched in the seedy terms of 1890 farce. Lily Damita, the star, is unbecomingly attired, subjected to poor lighting and a badly written rôle. O. P. Heggie, an actor of good standing, chants his horrid lines with fearful, wooden verve. The direction, by Victor Schertzinger, is atrocious. The dialog is unspeakably bad. The photography, credited to J. Roy Hunt, is an unhappy reflection on himself and his subject. And the whole is a pitiful commentary on the attempts of the glorified...
...when drink and irregular habits sent him into the Gaylord Farm (Wallingford, Conn.) sanitarium, a tuberculous patient. His biographers note that he went in a boy and came out a man. At least, that was where he started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought his son was just "crazy." Eugene O'Neill had been a beachcomber at Buenos Aires, a seaman, a reporter on the New London Telegraph, had trouped with the parental Monte Cristo road company...