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...Cents a Dance (Columbia). Back of Hollywood's system of finding type-actors for certain parts and securing the same actors whenever these parts turn up is the theory that bit-part actors, like the stars, have their personal following. But this system has weaknesses, and Ten Cents a Dance suffers from the fact that Monroe Owsley happens now to be Cinema's outstanding cad. His chin is in favor for its weakness, his eye for its shiftiness. The common knowledge that Monroe Owsley is a cad gives away the plot. Last week...
Kiki (United Artists). With decades in ringlets behind her, Mary Pickford has become a madcap. If she finds madcapping tiring at her age no one can tell from the results except that at times she seems to work a bit too hard at it. In The Taming of the Shrew, she was a madcap in costume, which was an advantage. In Coquette she had an hysterical scene which was widely applauded and made up for her routine madcapping. In Kiki the madcapping consists of losing her panties on the stage, reading other people's letters, using a hatpin...
...were written by men who knew both history and the stage. Dramatic effects were deftly and delicately manipulated in order to lend strength and verisimilitude to what were otherwise essentially elementary plots. Maxwell Anderson, on the other hand, possesses a wavering knowledge of the facts and is a bit heavy handed in his construction. What might have been fine melodrama soon resolves itself into rather tawdry emotionalism...
...read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate has played in the life of Bruce's father would seem to be a bit extraneous. Taken as a whole, however, the poem is a superlative production showing a sustained power and maturity in addition to its real poetic beauty...
...GREEN PASTURES?After twelve months, the Lord is beginning to mugg a little bit...