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...LIVE AGAIN--Despite the fact that Tolstoy's Resurrection has been filmed twice before in the U. S., it took Producer Samuel Goldwyn to set his hand to producing a near-accurate interpretation of the social message contained in the book. He chose Anna Sten, Fredric March and Director Rouben Mamoulian to make this one of the best pictures of the season--and they fulfilled all expectations...
Chicagoans knew them last week as Franca Somigli, Giuseppe Bentonelli and Anna Turkel. All three were young U.S. singers making their débuts with the Chicago Grand Opera...
...Anna Turkel was Anna Turkel. Her father was an Austrian immigrant who settled in Woonsocket. R.I. and begat eight children. Anna, the eldest, was determined to be a singer and Father Turkel was equally determined that she should never change her name. Anna made sure-fire copy because she was once a sweetmeat seller at the Metropolitan Opera House where she listened constantly to such singers as Lucrezia Bori, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza. In Europe she did well by the name of Turkel. But Chicago last week found her cold and immature...
Limehouse Blues (Paramount). Putting Anna May Wong and George Raft in a picture with a Limehouse background was a good idea to start with but it is the only good idea in Limehouse Blues. Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite...
After the convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in Buffalo, Anna Steese Richardson, editor (Woman's Home Companion) and playwright (Big Hearted Herbert) sputtered: "It's the same old stuff we have had for 30 years. The same contralto singer. The same old blah, blah, blah all over again. It makes me wild....We are headed inevitably for Fascism and yet the club women go on with the same old stuff and the average woman in the American home .cares no more about the way in which her city, state, and Federal...