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...Niagara Falls, Ont., rejuvenated Russian Rejuvenator Dr. Serge Voronovr, 74, and wife Gertrude, 28, entered the U.S. for permanent residence; in Santa Barbara, high-domed, German-born Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Roosevelt), 60, and wife re-entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World's Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore...
...Major Barbara (Pascal-United Artists). George Bernard Shaw, 84 and the world's No. 1 living dramatist, did everything but grind the camera in this second authorized full-length screen version of one of his plays. He wrote its scenario and dialogue, brought the 36-year-old drama up to date with some 30 new scenes, supervised its direction, dominated its production. The result is a cinema treat...
...determined to devote my life as far as I could to the abolition of white slavery. . . . Look after my plays and look after my films. They are all devoted to the abolition of that sort of slavery." Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that...
work. The camera communicates their state of mind in some of Major Barbara's unhappy sequences. It took 17 days to make a single shot of London's embattled Tower Bridge, and the completed sequence shows part of London's balloon barrage hovering in the sky. Once, when the company returned to complete a sequence begun on a street in London's East End, the houses had disappeared...
Shaw: "Do not let your time be wasted by attempts to get the agreement altered. . . . They must take it or leave it as it is. The more outrageously expensive it is the easier it will be to get the money. . . . And now what is the next film after Barbara to be? I want to know before I begin a new play...