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...Anna Christie. The fundamental difference in the technique of the screen and of the stage was never more pertinently displayed than in the two productions of Eugene O'Neill's drama. The legitimate version was a burning torch to show other playwrights their way along the indistinct path of progress. The motion picture is?simply another motion picture. The solution seems to lie in the psychological shortcomings of cinema narration. The mind is an inscrutable phenomenon at best. Pantomime does not suffice to render it transparent...
...Anna Christie is the story of a Swedish farm girl who has slipped from grace. She meets her old barge captain of a father; she falls in love with an Irish sailor. Both discover the moral wounds scarring her past. Their primitive mental equipment jarred by the discovery, they all but throw her back into the streets. Their final forgiveness is generally regarded as a flabby anticlimax...
...ever. There has been a great change in the last three or four years. People are reading a better class of book. I don't mean heavy literature. I mean light literature of a better sort. Naturally they want to see better plays and better acting. A play like "Anna Christie" would be three times as popular now as it was when it was first produced. New York offers today the best field for first-class drama in the world...
Engaged. Charles J. Hubbard, 21, captain of the Harvard football eleven which was decisively defeated by Yale in its final game, to Miss Anna H. Fuller of Cambridge...
Ponjola is a picture of the regeneration of an African mining expert. Mainly important because Anna Q. Nilsson cut off her hair to play the "man " - later the woman - who accomplished the regeneration. Ponjola is the Kaffir word for whiskey...